28 March 2020

Coronavirus: It’s masks on, gloves off for Trump and Xi

Professor James Curran
Professor of Modern History, University of Sydney

USSC non-resident senior research fellow James Curran is quoted in this article by The Australian's Paul Kelly.

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Professor James Curran
Professor of Modern History, University of Sydney
James Curran was previously a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre. He is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney, specialising in the history of Australian and American foreign relations. His most recent book, Unholy Fury: Whitlam and Nixon at War, is a study of the Australia-US Alliance from the signing of the ANZUS treaty in 1951 to the early days of the Hawke government.

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