Shiro Armstrong

Australia, Catalonia

Editor at East Asia Forum

Professor at the ANU. Editor of @east_asia_forum and Director of @AJRC_ANU.

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Articles

RCEP can aid in battle against global protectionism

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Shiro Armstrong |Rebecca Sta Maria

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, created to promote open trade and regional integration, offers a powerful platform to resist rising global protectionism. Forged in a period of global economic and geopolitical uncertainty, the RCEP might now be the asset the region needs at a time of genuine crisis for defending the vision of open trade and co-operation that it embodies.
RCEP can be a tool for East Asian organising against protectionism

1 month ago | eastasiaforum.org | Shiro Armstrong

Forged in a period of global economic and geopolitical uncertainty, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) might now be the asset the region needs at a time of genuine crisis for defending the vision of open trade and cooperation that it embodies.
Collective action to avoid a trade war

1 month ago | opinion.inquirer.net | Shiro Armstrong |Yose Rizal Damuri

Jakarta—The 28-percent average tariff rate in the United States today, even with the 90-day pause, is significantly higher than the average rate of 19.8 percent imposed during the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The highest Smoot-Hawley tariff rate was 59.1 percent, well below the 145 percent that the Trump administration has slapped on all Chinese imports. Today’s tariffs return the US to its 1821 to 1900 average 29.7-percent tariff rate.
Collective action to avoid a trade war

1 month ago | plus.inquirer.net | Shiro Armstrong

Jakarta—The 28-percent average tariff rate in the United States today, even with the 90-day pause, is significantly higher than the average rate of 19.8 percent imposed during the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The highest Smoot-Hawley tariff rate was 59.1 percent, well below the 145 percent that the Trump administration has slapped on all Chinese imports. Today’s tariffs return the US to its 1821 to 1900 average 29.7-percent tariff rate.
Avoiding a world trade war - Openforum

1 month ago | openforum.com.au | Shiro Armstrong

The 28 per cent average tariff rate in the United States today, even with the 90 day pause, is significantly higher than the average rate of 19.8 per cent imposed during the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The highest Smoot-Hawley tariff rate was 59.1 per cent, well below the 145 per cent US President Donald Trump has slapped on all Chinese imports. Today’s tariffs return the United States to its 1821 to 1900 average 29.7 per cent tariff rate.
Avoiding a world trade war

1 month ago | eastasiaforum.org | Shiro Armstrong

The 28 per cent average tariff rate in the United States today, even with the 90 day pause, is significantly higher than the average rate of 19.8 per cent imposed during the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The highest Smoot-Hawley tariff rate was 59.1 per cent, well below the 145 per cent US President Donald Trump has slapped on all Chinese imports. Today’s tariffs return the United States to its 1821 to 1900 average 29.7 per cent tariff rate.
Collective action to avoid a world trade war

1 month ago | thejakartapost.com | Shiro Armstrong |Yose Rizal Damuri

The 28 percent average tariff rate in the United States today, even with the 90 day pause, is significantly higher than the average rate of 19.8 percent imposed during the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The highest Smoot-Hawley tariff rate was 59.1 percent, well below the 145 percent the Trump Administration has slapped on all Chinese imports. Today’s tariffs return the US to its 1821 to 1900 average 29.7 percent tariff rate.
Australias economic security depends crucially on working with Asia

2 months ago | johnmenadue.com | Shiro Armstrong

Australia has unveiled a new National Interest Framework which integrates security considerations into domestic economic policy, aiming to secure economic resilience and security amidst changing global power structures and increasing geopolitical tensions. But Australia has not yet placed strategic economic diplomacy at the forefront of the framework.
Economic Security and New Industrial Policy

Feb 18, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Shiro Armstrong |Mireya Solís |Shujiro Urata

1 Introduction New geopolitical realities are reshaping the world economy. The United States and China have moved away from an era of engagement to one of great power rivalry. Under Xi Jinping, China has doubled down on state intervention to achieve self-sufficiency in core technologies and has flexed its economic influence abroad through carrots (such as infrastructure finance) and sticks (economic coercion).
Trump’s trade madness risks global depression if retaliation’s not measured

Feb 9, 2025 | eastasiaforum.org | Shiro Armstrong |Tom Westland

Donald Trump — a man whose career is so thoroughly littered with scams that other scams to which he is not personally connected nonetheless orbit around him like small satellites — has no concept of mutually beneficial trade, which is the most fundamental principle of economics. For him, every interaction has a winner and a loser, and the United States cannot let itself be a loser in any circumstances.