31. Trade and Supply Chain Issues for Taiwan and Australia
- Author:
- Bryce Wakefield
- Publication Date:
- 12-2021
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- Covid-19 has disrupted supply chains around the world, while political movements in the United States and Europe that predate the pandemic have raised the prospect that we are once more living in a world where regionalism and nationalism trump global integration of trade. China, meanwhile, has made it clear that it sees trade as a tool in its political statecraft, a factor that has been keenly felt in the region. Nervous actors in the Indo-Pacific are looking to diversify their trade away from China, but do nations in the region have many choices? What does this mean for Taiwan-Australia trade relations? How does Taiwan’s ambiguous position in the international system relate to recent trade agreements? Where do Taiwan and Australia, as mid-level powers, sit within the global trading order?
- Topic:
- International Trade and Finance, Public Health, Pandemic, and COVID-19
- Political Geography:
- China, Taiwan, Asia, and Australia