French President Emmanuel Macron triggered a series of geopolitical debates after returning from his state visit to China on 9 April 2023. Strong criticism was provoked...
Authors: Durairaj Kumarasamy and Manisha Nayyar, MRIIRS The potential for cross-border trade between India and its neighbouring countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan, Afghanistan and...
Author: Guy Burton, Brussels School of Governance In March 2023, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations, with China playing a role as the...
Author: June Park, Schmidt Futures Export controls on semiconductor technology have been expanded after the conclusion of US bilateral negotiations with Japan and the Netherlands in...
Author: Xirui Li, NTU The private sector and foreign investors have become increasingly sceptical about doing business in China since COVID-19. The risks of shutdowns, travel...
Quantifying the effect of supply chain decoupling is difficult. Trade controls, particularly export controls over high-tech products, became a major policy tool for decoupling in the...
Author: Marina Yue Zhang, UTS The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) recently released a report asserting China’s dominance in ‘critical technologies’. The report claimed that much...
Author: Rahul Karan Reddy, Organisation for Research on China and Asia Recent developments in the Middle East have cast China as a reliable intermediary and proponent...
Author: Shiro Armstrong, ANU From May 2020 Beijing blocked the import of roughly a dozen Australian goods for which China was the major market, cutting imports...