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It has been just six months since the new coronavirus officially known as SARS-CoV-2 was recognised and already it is the deadliest pandemic since the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) emerged forty years ago...
The US presidential election is being shaped by the two crises that have defined 2020 so far: the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning over police brutality and racism.
COVID-19 has infected millions...
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...
Today marks one painful month since the murder of George Floyd. While in that time we've seen some promising bipartisan efforts to reform policing policies in the United States, unfortunately we've also seen...
The first major motion picture screened in the White House, for president Woodrow Wilson, definitely moved the dial on race relations in America. Moved the dial dramatically backwards, that is.
The film was DW...
The response to COVID-19 is having a transformational effect on the use of digital technologies in Australia, the United States and many other parts of the world. But the stark gaps in equitable...
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)...
Even before the onset of coronavirus, it had become something of a truism to talk of US-China relations plunging into a new era of heightened geopolitical competition.
The element of danger in all...
In a virtual "Juneteenth" forum, marking the abolition of slavery in the United States, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden reflected on the words of legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass. He said: "It is easier...
On March 15, during what turned out to be the final debate of the Democratic primary, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders went back and forth on fracking. Biden got in the final line...
Two seemingly disparate elements — the technological divergence of the US and China, and the financial shock of the loss of international student revenue to Australia’s universities — are converging to undercut Australia’s...
There is simply no precedent in modern US history for so many prominent retired generals and admirals—including former secretary of defense and retired general James Mattis, three former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs...
Technology is the defining element of the United States’ growing strategic competition with China which Donald Trump first announced in 2017. The slow disentangling of technological integration between the United States and China...
Watching the US government's response to the June 1 protests in Washington, DC made my mind wander to 2004, when my soldiers and I were tasked with preventing Iraqi citizens from entering the...
This is the first in Jim Orchard's three-part series on the formulation of Joe Biden’s climate change agenda. Part two is available here.
Joe Biden struggled to raise campaign funds or create...
The Innocence Project in the US and elsewhere has become famous for addressing miscarriages of justice. Its legal teams challenge wrongful convictions that often are based on inadequate defence, false confessions or witness...
As protestors flood the streets of the United States following the killing of George Floyd, some reports suggest President Donald Trump wants at least 10,000 active-duty troops to pour into the capital as...
It is hardly surprising that many foreign policy developments that would normally feature in the news have lately been demoted well below the headlines, as domestic turmoil in the United States has dominated...
The Covid-19 crisis is subsiding in America’s major cities and the nation is beginning to open up, but the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic has left behind at least one time bomb...
US president Ronald Reagan, negotiating with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, came to popularise an old Russian declaration: “Trust, but verify.” This was sometimes the key to successful disarmament treaties.
Trust is almost entirely...
