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Bookmark or Share- China coal trade too big for Beijing to meddle with … or Australia to ...In Brief. Delays in clearing Australian coal imports through Dalian and northern Chinese ports over the past week set off alarms in Australia about risks to the massive thermal coal and resource trade relationship with China.
- Can a Chinese ‘maritime silk route’ cool tensions in Asia?For Beijing, RCEP also has the benefit of countering the US-led Trans Pacific Partnership. Yet the benefit for China of achieving either of these objectives would pale in comparison to the potential benefit of President Xi Jinping’s realising his dream of reviving the ‘maritime silk route’, which he unveiled during his October 2013 visit to Malaysia and Indonesia.
- Australia as an Asian power leaves no room for economic fantasyShare. A. A. A. Australia and the world are grappling with the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. The economic, political and foreign policy choices that are made now will determine security, prosperity and stability for decades to come. As an integral part of the shift of global economic gravity to Asia, Australia supplies two-thirds of ...
- China in the Pacific: where there’s smoke, there’s mirrorsA Fairfax news report that ‘preliminary discussions’ were held between the Chinese and Vanuatu governments about the establishment of a naval base at a Beijing-funded wharf in Luganville is causing quite a stir in Australia. The US$87 million wharf was funded by a loan from China’s EXIM bank to allow cruise ships to dock on the island.
- China’s role in global and regional governance architectureA. A. A. A. China’s participation comes at a critical stage. Due to the changing landscape of the world economy and the reverberations of the financial crisis, the global and regional architecture is bound to vary. In East Asia, a region emerging as the powerhouse of the world economy, there are competing visions for regional integration.
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