James Laurenceson

RT @ALeighMP: Jacqui Dwyer's analysis of Australian economics paints a troubling picture: a discipline at risk of becoming unrepresentative…

RT @JAParker29: You can read my recent piece with @LowyInstitute's #theinterpreter on the Chinese Marine Scientific research vessel the Tan…

RT @acri_uts: As Trump’s tariffs have sown chaos around the world, the idea of having an ideologically aligned leader has soured for some A…

RT @KaiserKuo: @tomfriedman @ezraklein It’s heartening to see major public intellectuals articulating what a number of scholars, journalist…

Yet further evidence that the Australian public prefers its political leaders to engage in calm and professional diplomacy with China and that delivers results. Leave the chest-beating aimed at appeasing a domestic political base to Washington. https://t.co/ExduTeAgZ3

Pleased to join @EmmaShortis and others in this @wapo piece by @MikeMillerDC on the upcoming Australian election, and how being seen to align with the current US President doesn't go down well with a majority of the Australian public. @UTSEngage https://t.co/E211W4l71K https://t.co/ItpejXEwIY

RT @acri_uts: While housing and cost of living are front of mind for AU voters, "it is how the major parties respond to the [US & China] th…

RT @FinancialReview: As US president Donald Trump declares victory at every turn, he will leave behind a profoundly changed world. The impl…

Agree with @AdamPosen on this. China has trade war escalation dominance. Tariffs are an import tax. “I’m going to impose a bigger import tax than you and cut off more of my producers and consumers from the goods they need and want. Cop that!”…is very strange strategy indeed.

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The Trump administration may believe that any country that retaliates against U.S. tariffs would be playing a losing hand—but this logic is wrong, writes @AdamPosen. It is China, not the United States, that has escalation dominance in this trade war. https://t.co/7aajiWoaeY

RT @MichaelPascoe01: @j_laurenceson @ConversationEDU Yep - pathetic parish pump politics put ahead of our national interest. Hard to decide…

RT @acri_uts: If the belief is that "Darwin might need to serve as a staging post for military conflict w/ China,forcing the sale of a few…

Interesting. #AUKUS advocates argue that Australia acquiring SSNs will cost not a lot more than diesel-electric subs. But ⁦@DefenceDollars⁩ says a like-for-like comparison reveals them to be around three times as expensive. https://t.co/9abs1Nddpx

RT @j_laurenceson: Both sides of Australian politics have committed to spiking Chinese ownership of the lease to operate Darwin Port. Media…

RT @ConversationEDU: Successive governments have reviewed the deal to lease the port to a Chinese company and found no cause for concern. B…

RT @KirstyLNeedham: In a war game simulating a response by U.S. allies to a Chinese blockade of Taiwan, Australia did not use nuclear-power…