Opinion

The economic ties that bind us to China

Efforts to reduce trade reliance on Beijing are failing, with interdependence actually increasing for the US, its allies and the global community.

Shiro ArmstrongTrade expert

Aug 28, 2022 – 2.36pm

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The US and China are now engaged in policies of technology decoupling in the latest phase of their trade war. Japan is enacting economic security laws aimed at China, to avoid becoming collateral damage.

Australia, too, has seemingly chosen to side with America in its attempt to diversify trade away from China, after being the target of trade coercion.

Shiro Armstrong is a professor and director of the Australia–Japan Research Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.