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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Nearly 300 people converged on Washington, DC last Thursday for the G’Day USA Dialogue on Defence Industries. In light of the newly-announced goal of growing Australia's defence industry into a top ten global...
From the Mexican border wall to refugee swap deals from Manus and Nauru, immigration has been a recurring point of tension during the Trump administration. But debate over a group of between 700,000-800,000...
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...
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...
Donald Trump has proposed an additional $US100 billion ($130.3 billion) in tariffs on Chinese imports, on top of the 25 per cent tariffs on $US50 billion of imports already mooted as retaliation for...
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...
Could the Australian government do more to support local innovation and grow our own American-style tech giants? We asked leading innovation commentators James Riley and Sandy Plunkett to debate the issue.
The Third Offset strategy is perceived as a solution to matching the US defence budget with US strategic ambitions; to find means of sustaining its military-technological advantage in this new era of great...
Shortly after becoming the US Secretary of State in 1818, John Quincy Adams surveyed the State Department and declared “all in disorder and confusion”. Two hundred years later, Mike Pompeo will confront a...
Former First Lady Barbara Bush, matriarch of the Bush political dynasty, died last week at the age of 92. In the days since her passing, there has been an outpouring of remembrances about...
Comments made at a USSC event by former US trade official Glen Fukushima are the focus of this article published by the Australian Financial Review.
In 1990, as America's first lady, Barbara Bush delivered a Commencement Address at the prestigious Wellesley women's college in Massachusetts that experts later voted one of the 50 best political speeches in history.
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Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre Charles Edel spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald about the ongoing debate about China's role in the South Pacific that has centred on Vanuatu.
