National security concerns and increased government restrictions loom large over foreign direct investment in Australia and the United States, according to a new Index developed at the United States Studies Centre by Stephen Kirchner. The report highlights the need for the government to clearly and transparently articulate reasons for rejecting foreign acquisitions to minimise adverse economic impacts.
Australia's long-standing strategic relationship with the United States is transforming in response to rapid geostrategic change in the Indo-Pacific, a fractious debate about America's role in the world, technological change, and economic interdependence. For Australian policymakers and their American partners, creativity and dexterity are in great demand, with the US-Australia alliance growing in scope and deepening in strategic importance.
Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on 20 January 2021 with an expansive agenda that includes rolling out an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination program, reshaping the economic recovery, overhauling climate policy and rethinking the power of tech companies. Follow along as our leading experts explore and analyse the key events of the Biden presidency.
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Unlike most US presidents, Joe Biden did not come to the White House with many fixed ideological positions. He did, however, come with fixed values. Chief among them is understanding how US policies...
Will China’s launch of the digital currency electronics payment, or DCEP, the world’s first sovereign digital currency, threaten the ascendancy of the US dollar?
Beijing is hopeful and a growing group of policy...
The trial of Derek Chauvin, charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the killing of George Floyd in May last year, is groundbreaking. This is the first televised trial...
Australia’s regulation of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) has often drawn criticism for creating uncertainty for foreign investors, as well as for Australians looking to sell their assets to foreigners. Much of this...
The passing and farewell to His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, resonates much differently in the United States compared to Australia and the Commonwealth and provides an opportunity to reflect on...
If international relations in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic was all about the politics of aid and mask diplomacy, there is no doubt the arrival of vaccines has made the second...
The Australian Financial Review reports that foreign investment uncertainty for Australia doubled last year as the federal government imposed tough screening restrictions on offshore investors during COVID-19. This is according to a new...
The Australian Financial Review reports that the Morrison government is yet to confirm whether Australia will follow the US and withdraw its final troops from Afghanistan two decades after the September 11, 2001...
US President Joe Biden says all US troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September 11, this year. It'll mark the 20th anniversary of the Al Qaida terror attacks on American soil. USSC...
Senior Fellow Charles Edel's new chapter "Extending the Sphere: A Federalist Grand Strategy," in Rethinking American Grand Strategy looks at how The Federalist Papers served as the first articulation of American grand strategy...
USSC director of foreign policy and defence Ashley Townshend is quoted in this Herald Sun article.
