Trade war forces universities to go global

China’s economic coercion of Australian higher education could be severe and sustained. The long-term response must be to find new international student markets in Asia, India and Africa. International education is the obvious choice for China’s next round of economic coercion against Australia. Education ($12 billion in exports to China in FY2018-19) remains the only export to China valued over $10 billion annually that China can restrict without suffering major economic pain.