Peter Drysdale

Mar 2, 2024 | afr.com | Peter Drysdale

ASEAN makes South-East Asian nations larger than the sum of their parts, as together they enjoy more diplomatic and geostrategic leverage. Indonesia, for example, with the wind of ASEAN behind it, successfully navigated the geopolitical minefield of hosting the G20 summit in Bali in 2022.

Nov 6, 2023 | asiatimes.com | Peter Drysdale |Rojan Joshi

The rise of security-driven economic policy in industrial countries gives license to atavistic inward-looking policy thinking, infecting the framing of development strategies at a critical time in countries on the cusp of major developmental breakthroughs like India and Indonesia. Geopolitics is changing the global economic policy landscape.

Nov 3, 2023 | asiatimes.com | Shiro Armstrong |Peter Drysdale

Prime Minister Albanese will land in Beijing today (November 4) on the anniversary of then-opposition leader Gough Whitlam’s historic trip in November 1971. A little over a year later, when Whitlam became Prime Minister, Australia and the People’s Republic of China established diplomatic relations with each other.

Nov 2, 2023 | eastasiaforum.org | Peter Drysdale |Allison Alexy |Kim Richard Nossal |Dron Parashar

Authors: Shiro Armstrong and Peter Drysdale, ANUPrime Minister Albanese will land in Beijing this week on the anniversary of then Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam’s historic trip in November 1971. A little over a year later, when Whitlam became Prime Minister, Australia and the People’s Republic of China established diplomatic relations with each other.

Oct 30, 2023 | afr.com | Shiro Armstrong |Peter Drysdale

As both countries seek to achieve their decarbonisation objectives and work with other countries towards a sustainable future, they will need to manage a major transformation in their trade and investment relationship to achieve energy transition faster and at lower cost. This calls for upping dialogue through business, non-official and government channels, to help chart the pathway forward. The two countries have their disagreements, and they will disagree in the future.