Former top bureaucrats among group calling for Australia to work with Asia in global COVID-19 recovery effort

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The federal government should work with Asia to rebuild the global economy and embrace international opportunities presented by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Australian National University’s Asian Bureau of Economic Research. The bureau’s new Asian Strategy for Recovery and Reconstruction after COVID-19 urges the Australian government, along with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, Japan, South Korea, India, and New Zealand, to “proactively coordinate financial, trade, public health and food security policies to avoid prolonged economic stagnation and international disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic”. “The weight and potential of Asian economies will be central to global economic...