This issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores the decline of global free trade and the emergence of a new economic order in which nations view trade as a tool for gaining strategic advantage.
As Donald Trump’s tariffs reshape the international marketplace, "Who won?" looks at the unfolding era of weaponised trade and the ways in which Australia can respond, adapt and resist.
Essays include:
- Weapons of choice: Australia and the new economic order, by Shiro Armstrong
- Staying open: How to counter Trump’s great disruption, by Melissa Conley Tyler
- Follow the money: Australia stuck in China’s orbit, by David Uren
- Buying power: An economic playbook for the era of Trump and Xi, by Richard Holden