The Biden administration’s surprise decision to share sensitive nuclear submarine technology with Australia brought a swift backlash from China on Thursday, and an angry charge of betrayal from France, which said the secretly...

This Tapei Times articles - quoted USSC director of foreign policy and defence Ashley Townshend - reports that the US announced a new alliance with Australia and Britain to strengthen military capabilities in...

The Australian Financial Review reports that allies including the US and Canada are profiting handsomely from Beijing’s trade sanctions on Australian goods, filling the void left by local exporters of coal, copper, beef...

Yahoo! News reports that Australia finds itself as the common link in a new mesh of global alliances centred on the Indo-Pacific that are all but in name aimed at countering China's rising...

Business Insider, India reports that President Joe Biden announced a new security partnership with the UK and Australia at the White House on Wednesday, joined virtually by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and...

The US, Britain and Australia have forged a “historic” security alliance to strengthen military capabilities in the Pacific, allowing them to share advanced defence technologies and giving Australian forces nuclear submarine technology, reports...

The South China Morning Post quotes USSC director of foreign policy and defence Ashley Townshend in an article about China's reaction to Australia’s new defence agreement with the United States and Britain. China...

Iran Front Page report on the announcement that the US, UK and Australia are setting up a trilateral security partnership aimed at confronting China, which will include helping Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines...

Politico reports on a new pact between the United States, Britain and Australia to share advanced technologies in a bid to counter China. The article quotes USSC director of foreign policy and defence...

Only six countries in the world—America, Britain, China, France, India and Russia—currently operate nuclear-powered submarines. Australia may become the unlikely seventh. In a statement and joint televised appearance on September 15th, Joe Biden...

USSC non-resident senior fellow John Lee was a guest on the ABC's Q+A program. The panellists discussed issues such as the AUKUS pact. the Australia-China relationship and the 'war on terror'.

Yahoo! News reports that Australia's shock decision to acquire US nuclear-powered submarines and cruise missiles helps bind a faltering alliance with Washington, but risks severely worsening an already fractious relationship with China. The...

Defence Connect quotes USSC non-resident senior fellow John Lee about the upcoming AUSMIN talks where Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Peter Dutton will look to materialise President Joe Biden’s commitment to strengthening...

USSC director of foreign policy and defence Ashley Townshend is quoted by The Asia Times in their article about the announcement of a new alliance between the US, Australia and Britain to strengthen...

Australia's Foreign and Defence Ministers are on their way to Washington for their first meeting with the Biden administration since the Democratic president took office.

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and...

The Guardian reports that the Biden administration has confirmed climate change will be on the agenda next week when Scott Morrison arrives in Washington for a summit of Quad leaders and for talks...

James Laurenceson, Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney writes in The Conversation that the Australian government hopes this week’s AUSMIN meetings between Australian and US officials...

USSC director of foreign policy and defence Ashley Townshend recorded this short podcast with the Pacific Forum's Blake Herzinger.

This week, Foreign Minister Payne and Defence Minister Dutton travel to Washington for the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN), the first cabinet-level meetings between the two countries’ foreign and defence policy principals since...

Resistance to the COVID-19 vaccine in the US “falls on a political fault line”, according to United States Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. During this Sky News interview, Jackman referenced the state of...