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Geoff Raby

Geoff Raby

Brisbane Times

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End of peak China?

It is easy these days to grab a headline about the end of peak China. China’s imminent economic stagnation is becoming conventional wisdom, unless...

09.04.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

Reports of China’s demise are exaggerated

The popular theory of “peak China” is based on a misreading of data. And many of its problems are more cyclical than analysts are allowing for.

05.04.2024 10

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

China steals a march on a distracted world

For China these days it doesn’t get much easier to pursue it geostrategic objectives. With the US distracted on two fronts in Europe and the Middle...

25.03.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

Deploying to the Red Sea a test of US fealty

It is worth considering when exactly deploying our military assets in Australia’s interests becomes a test of fealty to the United States, and an...

08.01.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

Australia should deploy to the Red Sea – but for the right reasons

The economic arguments for protecting trade from modern-day marauders such as the Houthis are far more compelling than loyalty to the US alliance.

03.01.2024 6

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

Albanese’s China visit: an ear to the future

Fifty years’ ago, the grainy black and white image of Whitlam with his ear pressed against the listening wall at Beijing’s Temple of Heaven, led...

07.11.2023 6

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

PM can now move on from talk of stabilising China ties

With Albanese’s visit, most, if not all, of the outstanding irritants in the Sino-Australian relationship have been or will be removed.

07.11.2023 7

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

Cheng Lei’s release a win for diplomacy

Make no mistake, had the Australian Government not changed last year, Chen Lei would still be languishing in her miserable detention cell, denied...

19.10.2023 4

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

Labor’s return to diplomacy freed Cheng Lei

If Scott Morrison was still prime minister, the detained Chinese-Australia journalist would not be back home in Melbourne.

17.10.2023 5

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

Another brick laid building the new order

The recently concluded summit of the five member states of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) agreed to expand membership to...

12.10.2023 5

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

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