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Geoff Raby

Geoff Raby

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Trump: a reality check for Australia

On Tuesday the American people spoke with clarity and determination. They voted for jobs, secure borders and to be able to look to the future in an...

08.11.2024 40

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

The China Threat has now become the Chussia Anxiety

The West need not fear a Chussia aligned against it. It instead needs to develop geopolitical strategies to deal with China as the dominant power in...

06.11.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

A new global order has arrived

When justifying vast increases in defence expenditure, subsidies for so-called critical industries, foreign aid as an increasingly important element...

27.10.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

BRICS Summit heralds arrival of new world order

This week’s meeting of heads of state in Russia shows that US-led efforts to isolate Vladimir Putin are only partially working, highlighting...

25.10.2024 30

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

Great game on: China’s ascendency in Eurasia and the West’s Chussia anxiety

Dr Geoff Raby AO, Australian Ambassador to China 2007-2011, Chairman, Geoff Raby & Associates, will Address the National Press Club of Australia on...

16.10.2024 8

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

The deputy sheriff rides again

In recent days, Australia’s ‘”deputy Sheriff” role has been on full display again in our foreign policy. The prime minister’s extraordinary...

11.09.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

Peak China? Judge by outcomes not ideology

Distinguishing in part between cyclical and structural economic challenges facing China, (eg, real estate busts vis further urbanisation potential)...

31.07.2024 8

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

Mr Modi goes to Moscow

Putin has done it again. Prime Minister Modi will visit Moscow as his first overseas destination since his re-election. And Modi has again...

11.07.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

On any measure, India has disappointed

It was never meant to be this way. India was to be in the corner of the democracies in the contest with the autocracies.

09.07.2024 10

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

China and Russia have one bed but different dreams

Russian weakness has enabled China to emerge as Eurasia’s dominant power. But it also limits the partnership of the two. Visits by heads of state...

22.05.2024 20

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

China and Russia have one bed but different dreams

Russian weakness has enabled China to emerge as Eurasia’s dominant power

21.05.2024 10

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

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 20

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 10

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

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