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In an interview with ABC Radio's The Signal, Ashley Townshend, Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, weighed in on the Australian government's recently announced $270 billion defence strategy.
Three experts — Allan Behm, head of the international and security affairs program at the Australia Institute; Ashley Townshend, director of the foreign policy and defence program at USSC; and Brendan Thomas-Noone, research...
The 30th round of the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations will soon take place amid immense global disruption and unprecedented domestic pressures accelerated by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (also known as coronavirus or COVID-19)...
Chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, Jim Inhofe, and Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Asia Subcommittee, Cory Gardner refer to research published by USSC — Averting Crisis: American strategy...
Gorana Grgic of the United States Studies Centre told CNBC that President Donald Trump’s unilateral policy actions have chafed the Europeans over the past few years.
Allegations Russia offered bounties to the Taliban for the lives of US soldiers in the Middle East would be an "ironic" and "major escalation" of tensions between the two nations, said USSC non-resident...
In a recent address to the Australian National University's National Security College, Foreign Minister Marise Payne reflected that "COVID-19 is a shared crisis - a reminder that many problems are best solved or...
Director of Foreign Policy and Defence Ashley Townshend is quoted in this Business Insider article saying China’s effort to “recast Australia’s independent call for a COVID-19 inquiry as ‘doing Washington’s bidding’ is designed...
