In their recent Foreign Affairs article, Kurt Campbell and Rush Doshi propose that US attempts to counter China can only be achieved through 'likeminded' countries pooling their technological, economic and military capabilities.

ACITI was pleased to host a discussion on the article with Professor James Laurencenson, Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney and Dr Naoise McDonagh, MBA Director, School of Business and Law and Managing Editor, Law & Geoeconomics at Edith Cowan University. The discussion ranged from engaging with the geostrategic challenges to liberal trade policies to identifying US domestic economic policies as the sources of the US's relative technological, economic and military decline relative to China.

ACITI spoke to Brendan Pearson, Australia's Ambassador to the OECD until February 2025, about his time representing Australia at the OECD. We canvas what the OECD is and what it does, the OECD's contribution to policy making in Australia and globally and its role in enabling international economic cooperation. We also touch on a recent OECD study - How Governments Back the Largest Manufacturing Firms - and its relevance to Trump Administration trade policies.

ACITI spoke to Professor Poppy Winanti, a visiting fellow at the Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University and Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia.The discussion explored the importance of the Indonesia-Australia trade and investment relationship and current efforts to strengthen that relationship, Indonesia's view of the relationship under President Prabowo, and the impact of the IA-CEPA trade agreement on trade. In light of current turbulence caused by President Trump's trade policies, we also explored how Australia and Indonesia might work together in response to this turbulence, including increased collaboration in various international organisations.