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Australia navigates Sino-American tensions
After elections in May, Australia’s new government must decide how to balance its ties with the United States and China. The economic relationship with China is paramount, but Australia also has interests in the security of its immediate neighborhood and shares a great deal with the U.S. The trade war and broader rivalry between the U.S. China trade war will present Australia with tough choices about its regional orientation.
Unconventional gas: Emerging markets in Asia and Australia
Attention has been focussed on Europe as the next world region to follow in America’s footsteps in the development of unconventional gas. But it is Asia and Australia that are set to surpass Europe’s production by 2020. In the fifth part of our series on the energy resource, we look ...
Australia looks to coal and gas to drive developments in renewable energy
Australia’s use of its abundant fossil fuel resources – especially coal - to drive its carbon intensive industries is controversial. But as the country, a net energy exporter and the world’s largest exporter of coal, shifts towards using cleaner sources of energy, the government has set ambitious renewable energy targets. ...
Geopolitics : The US returns to the Pacific as a major power
The United States has been, and always will be, a Pacific nation. And it will always be there to protect its interests. That was President Barack Obama’s key message intended to reassure East Asian countries alarmed at China’s expansionist policies. The US is putting South East Asia top of its ...
