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Workers’ rights: a growing challenge for Indo-Pacific supply chains
Consumers are increasingly demanding from businesses that their supply chains are free from exploitation. A recent ground-breaking report from Asialink Business argues expectations of accountability over the labour practices of suppliers is adding to the complexity of doing business, especially in the Indo-Pacific.
Investing in technology the key to succeeding in a new age of supply chain disruption
New research released by Asialink Business, in partnership with Toll Group, looks at the pressures on global supply chains, most notably highlighted by the challenges of COVID-19. Asialink Chair Peter Varghese AO and Thomas Knudsen, Managing Director of Toll Group, argue technology, innovation and e-commerce will be key to building resilient supply chains in a post-COVID world.
What China’s Australia poll tells Aussie businesses about the Mainland Chinese market
Beyond official trade restraints and embargoes penetrating the Chinese market is going to prove tougher for Australian exporters, writes Dan Hu. Chinese consumers have taken their lead from Beijing and cooled on brand Australia.
Fixing the global tech split
Strategic rivalry between the US and China risks sparking a fight over technology and dividing the world into technological camps. Economists Hoe Ee Khor and Suan Yong Foo argue that to avoid this economic reversal the world needs to re-embrace globalisation and launch ambitious multilateral efforts to boost global technological cooperation.
How will the digital renminbi change China?
China's planned rollout of a national digital currency will not aid in the internationalisation of the renminbi, but will instead, as former Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank Shang-Jin Wei argues, shift the power imbalance between the banks and Big Tech.