One year on from the announcement of the AUKUS security partnership USSC research fellow Peter Lee and program associate Alice Nason look at what progress has been made, what challenges remain and what lies ahead for this extraordinary partnership.
In May, President Biden and 12 regional counterparts officially launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, an initiative intended to reassert US economic engagement in the Indo-Pacific region. We invited Wendy Cutler, Vice President at the Asia Society Policy Institute and a veteran USTR trade negotiator, and Daniel M. Price, Managing Director at Rock Creek Global Advisors and a former senior White House official to discuss the Biden administration's first major trade-related effort in the Indo-Pacific.
After two years of negotiation, Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 which was signed into law by President Biden on 9 August 2022. In this explainer, USSC Research Associate Victoria Cooper examines the contents of the legislation as well as its strategic intent and implications for Australia.
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The announcement of the Australia, United Kingdom and United States (AUKUS) security partnership on 16 September 2021 transformed Australia’s perceptions of its capacity, capability and the role of its oldest allies. Few announcements...
Much of the commentary about the AUKUS (Australia, United Kingdom, United States) partnership since it was announced a year ago on Thursday has focused on when and if Australia will see nuclear-powered submarines...
On 23 May 2022, President Biden announced the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) in Tokyo alongside 12 Indo-Pacific partners. IPEF is unlike the Trans-Pacific Partnership — which President Trump withdrew the United States from...
Jared Kushner – son of a convicted felon (ultimately pardoned by Donald Trump); Trump’s son-in-law by marriage to the “warm”, “funny”, “brilliant” Ivanka Trump; Manhattan real-estate mogul closing billion-dollar deals; mini media mogul...
After many months of anticipation, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy finally arrived in Australia on 22 July 2022. Stepping off her plane and into the media frenzy swirling since before she was even officially nominated...
This week top trade officials representing the 14 nations participating in the US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity will meet for their first face-to-face negotiation in Los Angeles.
Delegations from diverse Indo-Pacific economies...
In this episode of The Asia Chessboard, USSC CEO Mike Green and Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS Jude Blanchette sit down with Bates Gill, Head of the Department of Security Studies...
This research report sets out a path forward for a whole-of-government policy approach for Australia to maximise advanced capabilities opportunities under the AUKUS partnership. The report explains why Australia needs advanced capabilities cooperation...
US Studies Centre's Associate Professor David Smith is quoted in The Conversation on how the Morrison government changed religion's relationship with politics.
USSC Foreign Policy and Defence Director Professor Peter Dean says the war in Ukraine is not progressing how Russia’s President Vladimir Putin would’ve liked.
“His campaign strategy at the beginning of the war...
Donald Trump and three of his children are being sued by New York's attorney general after an investigation into their family company. Letitia James alleges the Trumps lied to lenders about the net...
Despite strong approval ratings for his first six months in office, since August 2021 President Biden's disapproval rating has been higher than his approval rating. From January to August 2021 Biden's approval rating...
US Studies Centre's Non-Resident Fellow Bruce Wolpe talks to Joe Hildebrand at 2GB and weighs in on how the Democratic and Republican parties don't want either Joe Biden and Donald Trump to run...
