06 Feb 2020
Coronavirus, green swans and unknown unknowns
Tony Walker |
The global economy is still recovering from fragilities of the last decade. Now coronavirus threatens to hit growth anew.
About Tony Walker
Tony Walker is an author and former Washington correspondent, international editor, Middle East editor and senior political editor at The Australian Financial Review and The Financial Times. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Communications La Trobe University.
The Australian Financial Review: International Editor (2010-2016). Washington correspondent (2004-2010), Political Editor (2000-2004).
Financial Times: Middle East correspondent (1984-1993), Beijing Bureau Chief (1993-1998), North American correspondent (1998-2000).
Publications include Arafat: The Biography (Virgin Books 2004) and the Peter Thomson Five: A golfing legend's greatest triumphs (Melbourne University Press 2016). Graduate Australian National University BA (1968). Dual Walkley award winner for commentary (2003 and 2007). Paul Lyneham Award Excellence Press Gallery journalism (2003).
articles by Tony Walker
30 Jan 2020
APEC: the hope of the side
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
At 30, and without formal powers, what can APEC achieve in an increasingly fraught region? APEC Study Centre director Craig Emerson explains.
17 Oct 2019
US-China trade: a temporary truce
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
An agreement may be in sight in the long-running US-China trade war. But history warns us of mirages.
06 Sep 2019
Brexit: deal or no deal for Australia?
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Australia’s ability to trade with the UK in a post-Brexit environment may not be as easy as advertised.
13 Aug 2019
Global trade: the war clouds darken
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Trade-offs look increasingly unlikely in the Trump-Xi trade war and economic rations are looking bleaker.
04 Jul 2019
Fake friends: Trump and Xi
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
The relationship between the US and China is still in murky water following the G20 Summit.
12 Jun 2019
Avoiding the zero-sum game in the Pacific
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Ahead of the next G20 Summit in Osaka, Australia must surely navigate the testy relationship between the US and China.
16 May 2019
LONGREAD: trade war? Gimme shelter
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
The relationship between the US and China is reaching boiling point with outcomes which will impact many other nations, including Australia.
16 Apr 2019
The Asian Century: more than just China
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Asian economies are continuing to accelerate. So is Australia becoming an accidental geographic beneficiary?
14 Mar 2019
US-North Korea negotiations: where now?
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Trump and Kim’s latest summit fizzled - is anyone truly surprised? But what does it mean?
15 Feb 2019
US-China trade: finding the compromise
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
A US-China trade compromise appears to be bumping towards some sort of conclusion.
07 Dec 2018
G20, the US and China: omens not good
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
The dust has settled on a melodramatic G20 summit in Buenos Aires with trade and tariffs hitting a speed bump.
07 Nov 2018
New world order: trading up
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
The intangibles of an agreement drawing Australia and its neighbours closer may prove the biggest benefit.
11 Oct 2018
New world order: stuck in the middle with Trump
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
The US-China trade war will not be good for Australia – particularly the agribusiness sector.
10 Sep 2018
New world order: the US’ missing APAC ‘pivot’
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Whatever happened to America’s turn toward the Asia Pacific?
10 Aug 2018
New world order: a hard place
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Washington’s ability to enforce its Iranian sanctions regime globally will meet significant resistance.
09 Jul 2018
New world order: on the precipice of a trade war
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
It’s undeniable growth will be affected by any disruption to global trade.
01 Jun 2018
New world order: is China all consuming?
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
The China challenge is becoming more complex. It's a challenge suffusing Australia’s latest foreign policy white paper.
19 Mar 2018
New world order: Turnbull - Trump’s man of steel
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
A weakening of the WTO’s authority has the potential to upset a delicate global trading balance amid a mercantilist China’s rise.
08 Feb 2018
New world order: Trump, trade & the TPP
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
US involvement in the new TPP would not be simple given the remaining participants have re-negotiated its terms.
07 Dec 2017
New world order: threading the policy needle
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Australia’s Foreign Policy White Paper makes progress in coming to terms with the new geopolitical reality.
08 Nov 2017
New world order: the APEC paradox
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
November’s APEC forum will be the first featuring an American President seemingly out of step with its founding principles.
24 Oct 2017
New world order: Xi’s China dream
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Chinese leader’s ambitious plan departs from growth-and-more-growth dictums of predecessors.
16 Oct 2017
New world order: a bridge to China
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Shifting power balances and China’s developing BRI presents key decisions for the next Australian government.
08 Sep 2017
Trump and an ill-defined world
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
For many, the American president espouses views at best unformed – but the system has checks.
03 Aug 2017
Is China’s rise shadowing ASEAN cheer?
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
New world order: policymakers at the ASEAN meet in Manila should pay close attention to China’s words and actions.
04 Jul 2017
New world order: days of crises past
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
In an environment unusually fraught for all sorts of reasons the G20 is under unique scrutiny.
13 Jun 2017
New world order: fracturing consensus
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Australia seems to be cautiously sketching out a more independent role in a world where old certainties are being discarded.
01 May 2017
Trump: 100 days of theatre and surprising calm
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Australian officials have resolved to ignore the contortions and build relationships with Trump’s senior staff.
20 Apr 2017
Asia-Pacific Perspective: fool’s gold in India?
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
In the Australia-India trading partnership much that glitters is fool’s gold.
14 Mar 2017
Trade machinations in Chile
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
The world’s 45th largest economy, Chile is hardly the epicenter of the world trading system. But this week the South American country hosts an event which may prove to be of unusual significance for the global trading system, and for the countries of the Indo-Pacific in particular, including Australia.
24 Jan 2017
What the end of the TPP means (for Australia and the world)
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
If Australian policymakers had any doubt a Donald Trump presidency in the US would represent a disruption to business-as-usual in the White House that will have been dispelled by one of his first executive acts.
06 Dec 2016
Trump’s age of uncertainty
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Donald Trump did not take long to unsettle relations with China and raise questions about a Trump administration’s commitment to a ‘one-China’ policy, a cornerstone of American diplomacy since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
28 Nov 2016
China won’t wait for Trump
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
Donald Trump has repeated his pledge to abandon America’s commitment to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement on “day one’’ of his presidency.
21 Nov 2016
The emerging Trump world order
Tony Walker | Author and Political Analyst
The Chinese word for crisis embraces the characters signifying danger and opportunity. Any reasonable consideration of a Donald Trump presidency must anticipate a period of considerable uncertainty well into 2017.