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Brendan Pearson

This Month

While the Albanese government has been (rightly) prepared to criticise Trump policy, it’s a shame that the government apparently missed the opportunity to call out China’s strategy in Beijing this week, one that will likely cost Australian taxpayers billions of dollars in bailouts in coming months.

We let China rig the trade system and now we’re paying for it

Beijing’s pervasive and predatory practices have distorted global manufacturing for almost two decades and undermined faith in the multilateral trading system.

April

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said this week that he learnt in Year 7 that tariffs hurt the country that applies them the most.

Will global leaders practice free trade preached to Trump?

Given the agreement that tariffs are a tax on consumers, why don’t both major political parties pledge to remove them if they prevail at the election?

March

A steel trading yard in Shanghai. An OECD report has found that China is the biggest cheat when it comes to subsidies to win market share.

China really is the biggest trade cheat. The data shows it

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has developed a forensic approach to counting industrial subsidies in all their forms. The Chinese results are illuminating.

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