Mike Pompeo's appointment as Secretary of State would have several significant implications for US foreign policy. He also stands to inherit a State Department that has seen calls for drastic cuts to its budget, a mass-exodus of career diplomats, vacancies in virtually all of its senior positions, and widespread reports of plunging morale.
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The joint United States-China communique on trade issues released over the weekend has been flagged by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as a ceasefire in the trade war between the two economies.
Yet...
On March 22 Atlanta, Georgia was under siege. But as its citizens set about their morning, no fighter jets screamed overhead and no armoured vehicles poured through the streets. The only indication anything was...
Earlier this year, I reviewed Michael Wolff’s sensational, lacerating book on the Trump administration, Fire and Fury. Some claimed the book would bring down Donald Trump. It did not, of course. It has...
US President Donald Trump’s ability to achieve legislative successes in the two years before the 2020 presidential election will depend in large part on the results of this year’s midterms. On 6 November...
When the first season of Roseanne aired across 1988–89 it was called, by some critics, “slob comedy”. Variety declared that the Conners were “appalling TV role models” in its review of the first...
While media attention remains fixed on Donald Trump, focusing too intently on the president obscures the profound role played by the institution of the presidency and the stress test it faces. The presidency...
There’s been much ado about the absence of a US Ambassador to Australia.
While the 11th hour re-routing of Harry Harris to Seoul captured attention, the underlying issue is that it will be...
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is making an explicit trade-off between inflation and financial stability concerns. And this could be weighing on Australians’ wages.
In the past, the RBA focused more on...
No matter the result of next month's meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, it's highly unlikely North Korea will be surrendering their nuclear arsenal. USSC research fellow Brendan Thomas-Noone is quoted in...
The election victory of the Mahathir Mohamad-led Pakatan Harapan coalition — translated as Alliance of Hope — is compelling evidence of the political maturity of the Malaysian people.
The extraordinary result is an...
Research Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Defence Program Brendan Thomas-Noone is quoted in this Telegraph article about Donald Trump's decision to pull the US out of the Iran nuclear deal.
Thomas-Noone says...
