New research from the United States Studies Centre reveals the political and strategic underpinnings of the LIBERATE protests, concentrated in states won by Trump in 2016 but with Democratic governors, are likely critical for Trump’s re-election in November.
Updated daily, the United States Studies Centre is comparing the number of cases, tests and deaths attributed to COVID-19 in both Australia and the United States.
As residents and staff in aged care facilities continue to make up a major proportion of COVID-19 infections in both Australia and the United States, Dr Lesley Russell looks at how this might have been avoided and what needs to be done in the future.
Polling of 1,000 Americans and 1,000 Australians has shown a stark contrast in sentiment toward government management of the COVID-19 crisis, with the pandemic driving partisan politics in the United States, but erasing party lines in Australia.
When the pandemic eventually subsides, ‘normal functioning’ of the economic relationship between the world's two largest economies will be increasingly different to what it was before, according to a new report from USSC non-resident senior fellow John Lee.
The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney is a university-based research centre, dedicated to the rigorous analysis of American foreign policy, economics, politics and culture.
Australia’s Sunday morning current affairs programs have been making news lately. A few weeks ago it was Australia’s minister for foreign affairs, Marise Payne, proposing an independent, international inquiry into the origins of...
As Donald Trump looks for pathways through an increasingly tough re-election campaign, he has turned to a familiar issue. At the weekend, he asked places of worship to reopen. Most religious leaders have...
On April 17, President Donald Trump issued a series of calls on Twitter to "LIBERATE" Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia.
Within three days the number of protests in the country had doubled and nearly...
Australia was never for turning our position, including on the South China Sea, Huawei, foreign interference and calling for an international investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
Why then does the Chinese Communist...
In a period of isolation, many Australians and Americans are having fewer and fewer interactions with the outside world. When a person's visual horizons have largely shrunk to boundaries of their home and...
At age 77, in his twilight years, the third time was the charm for Joe Biden. He prevailed over a field of 24 Democrats from across the political spectrum and has emerged as...
Rising trade frictions with China underscore the potential tension between Australia's economic and foreign policy interests. Beijing wants to dramatise these tensions to intimidate Australia and undermine our alliance relationships, while Canberra wants...
This report argues that lowering reliance on China as the central hub for the manufacture of parts and assembly of products for many traditional and current generation merchandise products will be difficult or...
Guests on this week's Saturday Extra discussion on foreign affairs were Stephen Loosely, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, United States Studies Centre, Amanda Hodge, South East Asia correspondent for The Australian and Alex Oliver, Director...
Anger has escalated in the US city of Minneapolis, with a police station becoming overrun by protestors three days after the death of George Floyd. The African-American man's death in police custody has...
The Australian government has asked China to grant Australia the same reduction in bureaucratic trade barriers that Beijing has promised the United States. The request emerged as experts warned that US allies such...
Demonstrators demanding justice for a black man who was killed at the hands of police in Minneapolis have been met with tear gas, rubber bullets and smoke bombs. USSC experts Dr David Smith...
With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping both focused on ramping up domestic support in the wake of the pandemic, the bottom is rapidly falling out of US-China relations. And few in either Washington...
