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John Lee

The Australian

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What Trump’s Iran and NATO show means for Australia

The US president gives more to allies that do more, spend more, and take more risks. Passivity is the danger, and free riding will be ruthlessly...

27.06.2025 2

Financial Review

John Lee

Pentagon raises the ante for Albanese on China

13.06.2025 6

The Australian

John Lee

No, Ambassador Xiao, China is not a champion of free trade

It is not Trump’s tariffs but Chinese economic policies and practices over many decades that are the greater challenge to economic globalisation as...

10.04.2025 10

Financial Review

John Lee

Treating Trump as economic illiterate on tariffs is the wrong strategy

Malcolm Turnbull is right that trying to negotiate an exemption from a volatile president is foolhardy. But many are assuming there is no reason to...

11.03.2025 6

Financial Review

John Lee

Forget the optics, the numbers tell Ukraine story

07.03.2025 10

The Australian

John Lee

Will Australia get a tariff exemption? A Washington insider’s take

Some White House advisers seem to want Australia to experience the pain of tariffs before there is any negotiated relief as a move to enhance...

14.02.2025 7

Financial Review

John Lee

Sorry, PM, but Dutton is more a Trump kind of guy

18.01.2025 10

The Australian

John Lee

Why governments should fund think tanks that make life difficult for them

Without allowing some unencumbered funding and a safe space for free thinkers within the system, we will be poorer for it in a policy sense.

20.12.2024 9

Financial Review

John Lee

Ignorant ALP has missed the point of ‘disrupter’ Trump

13.11.2024 5

The Australian

John Lee

Australia can’t keep relying on hopes of China stimulus

Beijing’s latest version of its stalling stimulus model will become another dead end. It’s time for Australia to make its own economy more...

09.10.2024 1

Financial Review

John Lee

Paul Keating will find no foreign policy buddy in Donald Trump

14.08.2024 2

The Australian

John Lee