China’s recent propaganda taunts and trade sanctions are the bitter recriminations of a lover scorned, and there is nothing Canberra can (realistically) do to return to Beijing’s good graces.
Australia's Globalization Expert
Month: December 2020
In an economy growing at 5% a year, graduates don’t struggle to find jobs, and governments don’t have trouble paying their bills.
The stunning success of U.S. efforts to hobble Huawei shows the fragility of Beijing’s highly centralized tech sector.
It even has been suggested that the fleet might be multinational in composition, operating something like an ongoing set of naval exercises or even a maritime Indo-Pacific NATO.
Hell hath no fury like a suitor scorned, and if Australia-China relations have turned bad, it’s only because they were so good for so long.
China seems to be on the offensive everywhere these days. But as growth slows and budgets tighten, the country is finding it increasingly difficult to meet its imperial ambitions.
For all the accusations of anti-democratic tendencies that have been leveled at Trump, it’s the policies of his critics that would change the rules of American democracy.
Grain subsidies and the comfort blanket of government marketing boards have muted the price signals that might otherwise encourage Punjabi farmers to shift from growing what they’re used to growing toward growing what people actually want to buy.