This video features excerpts of me speaking on a panel in Sydney, in June 2019 about the challenges and opportunities confronting technology companies in the face of rising trade tensions. I was also asked to…
How to lose the race for technological pre-eminence This is a subject I started to think a lot about while working at Huawei Technologies in Shenzhen, which is here: As the attentive reader, will notice,…
A lecture on recent developments affecting international trade in goods This lecture note provides a primer on a few interesting features inherent to international merchandise trade in the immediate wake of…
Some research and advocacy on what governments can do to avoid undermining the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution In late 2019 Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, who I had already cooperated on when writing the…
Some thinking and advocacy on the need to adhere to the rules of the multilateral trading system The concept of national security, like almost everything else, has evolved over time. During the Cold War, it…
Some thinking and advocacy on the need to balance different interests when formulating foreign economic policy for the post-COVID recovery After a few days of meetings in Canberra with various academic,…
Some thinking and advocacy on an idea that should be relegated to the dustbin of history Announced in August 2020 by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the so-called Clean Networks Initiative seeks to decouple…
How can governments address genuine security risks without unnecessarily dismantling the global value chains and innovation networks on which our prosperity depends?
A lecture on some current trends and lessons learned from the past before we retreat too far from an open, global trading system This is a lecture I delivered in the course of an e-symposium organized by…
My July 2020 panel appearance at India's WION Global Summit On this panel, which I had the honour of sharing with renowned analyst Paul Triolo and Brigadier General (ret.) Robert Spalding, we discussed China's…
