27 April 2018

Long wait ahead as US search for ambassador goes back to square one

Ashley Townshend
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, United States Studies Centre

USSC director of foreign policy and defence Ashley Townshend is quoted in this Sydney Morning Herald article about the US reset on its search for an ambassador to Australia after Admiral Harry Harris was re-assigned.

View on smh.com.au →

Ashley Townshend
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, United States Studies Centre
Ashley Townshend is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre and Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Security at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the founding co-chair of the annual US-Australia Indo-Pacific Deterrence Dialogue and was the Director of Foreign Policy and Defence at the United States Studies Centre from June 2017 to June 2022.

First published

27 April 2018 in The SYdney Morning Herald

Tags

Harry HarrisUS Ambassador to Australia

Read next

The 46th | US lawmakers consider banning TikTok

The 46th | US lawmakers consider banning TikTok

Plans in Congress are underway to ban popular social media platform TikTok, amid privacy and security concerns given the app's founding company is based in China.

Fears AUKUS will undermine Australia’s defence sovereignty are misplaced

Fears AUKUS will undermine Australia’s defence sovereignty are misplaced

The AUKUS submarine announcement earlier this month reignited a long-running debate about how to best preserve Australia’s sovereignty.

The announcement addressed some key concerns. For example, the United States will sell (rather than...

How Xi, Putin have joined to thwart the West

How Xi, Putin have joined to thwart the West

In this piece for The Australian, Greg Sheridan quotes USSC CEO Mike Green: “The summit itself is confirmation that both Xi and Putin prioritise their ideological struggle against the West over their own...

USSC Insights: Why the AUKUS announcement sparked surprise in some circles

USSC Insights: Why the AUKUS announcement sparked surprise in some circles

The USSC's Director of Economic Security, Hayley Channer, discusses the AUKUS announcement, and why the cost of the new submarines sparked surprise in some circles.