“From my vantage point in Washington, the chances of getting an exemption were less than 50 per cent, they were always unlikely to happen, given the atmosphere here in Washington at the moment. The Trump administration believe in tariffs. He [Mr Trump] says it’s the most beautiful word in the English language. He wants the […]
Sinodinos says, compared with his first presidency, Trump has “in his own mind, almost absolute power”. “He’s got the Supreme Court, he’s got the House, he’s got the Senate. He’s at the height of his power,” he says.
TAG Partner and Chair of the Australia Practice, Hon. Arthur Sinodinos, was a distinguished speaker at the ING Wholesale Bank Global Capital Markets dinner on November 20th, where he discussed implications for the macroeconomic and geopolitical landscape following the U.S. election.
TAG Partner and Australia Chair, the Hon. Arthur Sinodinos AO, recently spoke at the Sydney International Strategy Forum 2024 where he discussed the next U.S. administration’s challenges and opportunities in the Indo-Pacific and the world more broadly.
“Before the election in the US, there was a lot of activity in Australia to work out who is going to win and, if so, what are the policies going to be,” Sinodinos said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Sydney. “The Australian government will be relatively well-prepared for what’s coming.”
Whoever wins the November presidential election in the United States, foreign policy is in for a shake-up and the world will be a more uncertain place. But liberal democracies like Australia have agency – we can respond by building on existing partnerships and creating new ones with like-minded countries to maintain the global rules-based order.
What does this mean for Australia and the rest of the world? Do not expect much change in international economic policy from either side of politics.
Financial advisers must be “increasingly nimble, agile and flexible” in the current geopolitical environment and prepared for ongoing disruption while looking for potential investment opportunities arising from structural change, Arthur Sinodinos, Partner and Chair of The Asia Group and former Liberal Minister and Assistant Treasurer said at the Hannemann and Brown Wealth Symposium via video link from Washington D.C.
TAG Partner & Australia Chair Amb. Arthur Sinodinos discusses Prime Minister Albanese’s visit to Washington last week and its impact on the U.S.-Australia relationship.
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Arthur Sinodinos, the former Australian ambassador to the U.S. and current partner and chair of the Australia Practice at The Asia Group, says GWEO began because of discussions with the U.S. military that showed that once a war starts in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. won’t be able to supply Australia with additional munitions as stocks will be rapidly depleted. So Australia needed to find a way to become more independent in munitions production.
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