Episode 40: Canada and Australia's trade responses to Coercive Global Powers: 'Strategic Cousins' or adrift in the same boat? With special guest, Ken Ash

In this week’s episode of Trade Policy Decoded, Peter and Pru host Ken Ash in discussing Canadian and Australian responses to the changing behaviour of major global trading powers.

Ken is a visiting fellow at the Institute of International Trade, and has served as the Director General of Economic and Policy Analysis with the Canadian Government, and as Director of Trade and Agriculture at the OECD.

As part of a special episode, Peter moderates the discussion by posing questions to Pru and Ken, who draw insights from their respective experiences to analyse the responses of Canada and Australia to changing international trade conditions. As the rules-based international order has become increasingly challenged, now resembling more of a power-based international order, discussion centres on what Australia and Canada can hope to achieve given their respective trade dependencies on China and the U.S, what the role of a middle-power coalition may be moving forward, what it might mean for Australia and Canada to be ‘strategic cousins’ (if anything), and where the next arenas for achieving economic resilience could be located.