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Oct 15, 2023 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Allison Alexy |Yiping Huang |Dron Parashar |Ying-kit Chan
Author: Editorial Board, ANUWestern countries’ efforts to enhance their partnerships with India have been embroidered with the rhetoric of a shared commitment to democracy and the ‘rules-based order’ — two things which, it’s implied, distinguish India from China.
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Kim Richard Nossal |Allison Alexy |Ying-kit Chan |Yiping Huang
Author: Kim Richard Nossal, Queen’s UniversityWhen Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government had ‘credible allegations’ regarding India’s involvement in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist leader and Canadian citizen, he added to the spiralling doom loop that has been roiling India–Canada relations.
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Oct 14, 2023 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Allison Alexy |Ying-kit Chan |Yiping Huang |Dron Parashar
Author: Dron Parashar, CanberraIn September 2023, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged in front of the Canadian Parliament that India was involved in the killing of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar. These allegations have come at a time when Australia, along with its Western partners, is actively courting India to create a counterbalance against China. India was quick to deny Trudeau’s accusations, calling them ‘absurd and motivated’.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
canadanewsjournal.com | Dron Parashar |Allison Alexy |Ying-kit Chan |Yiping Huang
Author: Dron Parashar, CanberraIn September 2023, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged in front of the Canadian Parliament that India was involved in the killing of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar. These allegations have come at a time when Australia, along with its Western partners, is actively courting India to create a counterbalance against China. India was quick to deny Trudeau’s accusations, calling them ‘absurd and motivated’.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Fukunari Kimura |Allison Alexy |Ying-kit Chan |Kazimier Lim
Author: Fukunari Kimura, Keio University and ERIAJapan and the European Union held their first ministerial-level council meeting on 3 July 2023 as part of a digital partnership announced last year. A joint statement published afterward reveals that the partnership is being built around four pillars, including semiconductors, rules on digital economy, submarine cables and cooperation on high-performance computing including 5G and beyond.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Allison Alexy |Ying-kit Chan |Kazimier Lim
Authors: Made Anthony Iswara, Dimitri Swasthika Nurshadrina and Asep Suryahadi, SMERU Research InstituteThe European Union’s newest deforestation regulation may spell trouble for smallholders in palm oil producing countries. Effective from 29 June 2023, the European Union has implemented the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which is aimed at ensuring that products consumed by EU citizens do not contribute to global deforestation or forest degradation.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
eastasiaforum.org | James Guild |Allison Alexy |Ying-kit Chan |Kazimier Lim
Author: James Guild, RSISFor several years, Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk have flirted with entering the Indonesian market. The Indonesian government, under President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo, has made overtures, with powerful actors like Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan showing up at Tesla’s manufacturing plant in Texas in April 2022 to promote investment opportunities in Indonesia.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Masahiko Takeda |Allison Alexy |Ying-kit Chan |Kazimier Lim
Author: Masahiko Takeda, ANUIn August 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) increased its allocation of special drawing rights (SDRs) to member countries by 456 billion units, equivalent to about US$650 billion. This increase pushed the total SDRs to SDR 661 billion — close to US$1 trillion. SDRs function as a universally accepted international reserve asset that can be exchanged with hard currencies and used outside of the IMF for different purposes.
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Oct 8, 2023 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Allison Alexy |Ying-kit Chan |Kazimier Lim
Author: Editorial Board, ANUSome have been predicting the collapse of the Chinese economy for decades. Could they finally be right? China’s economic recovery coming out of the zero-COVID policies at the beginning of this year has stalled. The economy only grew at a seasonally adjusted rate of 0.8 per cent (quarter on quarter) in the second quarter, slower than many of the quarters when China was in COVID-induced lockdown.
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Oct 8, 2023 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Yiping Huang |Allison Alexy |Ying-kit Chan |Kazimier Lim
Author: Yiping Huang, Peking UniversityLacklustre growth and rising uncertainty has focused the world’s attention on the state of China’s economy. After a strong start to 2023, Chinese economic activity has sharply fallen short of expectations. Exports have collapsed. Consumption, production and investment have slowed, while inflation levelled out and the unemployment rate edged up. The Chinese renminbi hit new lows in August and September 2023, driven by worries about the domestic economy.
