Australia-China Relations

New Zealand and Singapore are the two countries that could actually help Australia to reverse the suicidal trajectory of our relationship with our major customer China. I hope we are not too proud to accept this support. It would be a step in the right direction. Other possible helpful input can

At what point does the goodwill from the Federal Government's strong management of COVID-19 fail to protect it from growing voter anger at its atrocious, unending incompetence in managing Australia's relationship with our major customer? Read full post here. Connect with Duncan on LinkedIn

With all due respect, from an emotional intelligence and metaphorical perspective, some of the behaviour we are observing from the West towards China is very much like watching an emotionally inept man (Australia) take his offended wife (China) to court over the semantics of his recently abusive beh

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"How has it come to this ... ?" is Page 1 of today's The West Australian. Sadly, the opinion piece "China fix a two way street" that attempts to answer the question misses the point. Read the full post here.

Are we Australians prepared for decades of economic pain? Is Canberra softening us up for recessionary times for our children and grandchildren? This journalist promotes a Plan B of abandoning efforts to fix our damaged relationship with China in favour of finding new markets, even though "It wil

This is not a misspelling. Right now, Australia is not winning at wine sales to China. Australia will experience up to 212% tariffs on wine exports to China. Meanwhile Bordeaux quietly sells quite a lot of wine to China at healthy prices, with a lot of visibly and deservedly happy fellows, tha

We are independently auditing Scott Morrison WeChat Official Account format for the approach to messaging. There is a lack of understanding about how to leverage the WeChat platform for connection. View full post here.

How well is Australia doing in the area of Cultural Intelligence? We take a look at what we can learnt from Harvard. Read full post.

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