Robin Harding

Wednesday, 5 April, 2023

Wednesday, 22 February, 2023

InterviewAustralian politics

Australia’s treasurer says $2.3tn pensions pool should fund ‘nation-building’

Jim Chalmers argues energy and social care investments would not compromise retirement savings

Thursday, 2 February, 2023

Electric vehicles

Beware the great battery industry fallacy

Despite the rush for dominance, the economics are not promising

Thursday, 29 December, 2022

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong’s dollar peg is on increasingly thin ice

Economically, it is close to impregnable. Politically, it is at the whim of the China-US relationship

Thursday, 13 October, 2022

Chinese economy

Slowing Chinese growth is a recipe for global instability

Beijing contemplates a future in which its economy remains well below the income levels of the US

Saturday, 9 July, 2022

Japan

Japan mourns Shinzo Abe as police investigate fatal shooting

Crowds gather to pay respects to former prime minister at a memorial site close to where he was attacked

Monday, 4 July, 2022

The Big Read

Global inflation: Japan faces a moment of truth

The collapse of the yen piles pressure on the central bank to change course after decades of loose monetary policy

Monday, 27 June, 2022

Special ReportThe Future of Cities

Radical neighbourhood redevelopment model splits opinion in Tokyo

Mori Building pioneered developing large areas of the city, attracting interest across Asia

Wednesday, 1 June, 2022

Chinese trade

Electric vehicles accelerate China’s looming dominance as a car exporter

For Japanese and European carmakers, the challenge is that while EVs may be high-tech, they are not complex

Friday, 20 May, 2022

Japanese economy

‘Different from the US’: why Japan does not worry about inflation

After decades of stagnation, workers no longer demand higher wages and companies do not pass on price rises

Thursday, 28 April, 2022

Yen

Yen slides to 20-year low as BoJ defies global shift to higher rates

Currency’s fall through ¥130 against the dollar follows central bank vow to keep bond yields at zero

Tuesday, 12 April, 2022

Coronavirus

The rest of the world should watch what is happening in Shanghai

Covid lockdown in China’s biggest city will have global economic reverberations

Tuesday, 29 March, 2022

InterviewJapanese economy

Japan must hit inflation target via domestic demand, Kishida aide insists

Powerful adviser Seiji Kihara rules out Japan quitting joint energy projects with Russia

Thursday, 10 March, 2022

US Dollar

Toppling the dollar as reserve currency risks harmful fragmentation

Sanctions against Russia have spurred calls for an alternative holding, but this would only destabilise the financial system

Thursday, 17 February, 2022

News in-depthFutures contracts

Hong Kong breaks Singapore’s grip on China stock futures

Battle between rival exchanges for control comes as demand booms for Chinese equities

Sunday, 23 January, 2022

Hong Kong

Don’t write off Hong Kong as a financial centre just yet

Despite a political crackdown, people who want to move capital into China will continue to use the territory to do so

Friday, 24 December, 2021

Coronavirus economic impact

Omicron forces Asian countries to abandon reopening of borders

Strict travel controls threaten to damage the region’s economic recovery next year

Tuesday, 21 December, 2021

Global Economy

Human progress stumbles on, pandemic or no pandemic

Even during a health emergency, the capitalist system delivered enough growth to lift people out of poverty

Wednesday, 1 December, 2021

Japanese politics & policy

Japan’s former PM warns China invading Taiwan would be an ‘emergency’ for Tokyo

Shinzo Abe hints invasion could meet the conditions for Japan to use military force

Monday, 29 November, 2021

Coronavirus

WHO warns of ‘very high’ risk from Omicron coronavirus variant

Japan moves to ban foreign visitors to limit spread of heavily mutated strain

Friday, 26 November, 2021

Japanese politics & policy

Japan approves extra defence spending amid concerns over China’s rising power

The $6.8bn package will take country’s military spending to its highest level since the 1950s

Thursday, 25 November, 2021

Asia-Pacific economy

Asia is the global inflation exception

The region is not experiencing the sharp price rises seen elsewhere because it handled the pandemic better

Tuesday, 2 November, 2021

Asia-Pacific economy

Australian central bank tightens monetary policy to deal with price surge

RBA abandons yield curve control scheme launched during pandemic and sets potential precedent for peers

Thursday, 28 October, 2021

Chinese economy

China needs to learn lessons from Japan’s 1990s collapse

The longer Beijing takes to address its housing market bubble and accept a lower level of growth the worse the pain will be

Friday, 22 October, 2021

News in-depthJapanese politics & policy

Japanese PM Kishida’s family links to Taiwan raise hopes of deeper ties

Taipei anticipates new leader’s connections will boost support as Chinese assertiveness grows

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