What China is banking on
December
Note: This article appeared in The Australian Financial Review on July 29 2015.
Two big questions have come out of the wild gyrations in China’s stock market over the past weeks.
China free trade agreement: baseless fears on labour are holding up progress on historic deal
December
Note: This article appeared in the Daily Telegraph on July 28 2015.
A coalition of trade unions wants to stop the China free trade agreement at the final hurdle — a vote in federal parliament.
What China’s latest GDP numbers tell us
December
Note: This article appeared in Business Spectator on July 24 2015.
Here’s the key takeaway from China’s latest GDP numbers released last week: there’s now greater reason to be optimistic that growth of around 7 percent is sustainable.
China’s deft economic diplomacy is good for Australia
December
Note: This article appeared in Business Spectator on June 19 2015.
The fact that it took 10 long years to get the deal done has already been forgotten. All that matters is that this week Australia and China settled a high quality trade agreement.
China offers big gains from small investments
December
Note: This article appeared in The Australian Financial Review on June 10 2015.
China today looks a lot like Korea in the late 1980s. That was long before Samsung became a smartphone leader and back when Hyundai had a reputation for cheap and nasty, not quality on par with Toyota and Ford.
Sydney’s skyrocketing house prices are worrying, but Chinese buyers aren’t to blame
December
How Chinese Business Leaders View Australia
December
In February 2015 ACRI commissioned Zogby Research Services to conduct a poll of Chinese business leaders on their attitudes towards Australia.
1. Chinese business leaders1 are overwhelming positive in their views towards Australia: 93 percent said that their overall impression is favourable or very favourable.2 This compares with:
Australia’s dependence on China just went up a notch
December
Note: This article appeared in Business Spectator on May 27 2015.
The Australian economy just became more dependent on China. Again.
China’s new economic diplomacy
December
Note: This article appeared on University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute Blog on May 26 2015.