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The Trump campaign has long enjoyed delivering an unusual musical message during the president’s rallies, frequently blaring the Rolling Stones’ classic “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” Last week, the music was...
Amid the pandemic and intensifying strategic competition, the Australia-US alliance is working to adapt to myriad Indo-Pacific challenges and provide critical health security and defence support to our partners.
That’s the key message...
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)...
The Indo-Pacific Defense Forum excerpted and edited an article from a report published by the United States Studies Cente, Operationalising Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, written by USSC director of foreign policy and defence...
USSC non-resident senior fellow Stephen Loosley is among the guests on ABC Saturday Extra's A Foreign Affair. The panel discusses topics including the continuing protests in Myanmar as countries in the region and...
US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman says people in the United States and Australia are paying attention to anything coming out of the Biden administration regarding China. “The issue of human rights in...
President Biden has proposed that the next meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad) be attended by leaders, rather than the foreign ministers, of the member nations — the US, Australia, India and Japan...
US President Joe Biden is playing tough China cards early. The most recent is his proposal that the next meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue be at the leaders’ level. Confined once to...