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After two years of negotiation, Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 which was signed into law by President Biden on 9 August 2022. The act authorises US$280 billion (AU$410.6 billion)...
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last week rattled US-China relations like nothing we have seen since the collision of a US EP-3 surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter...
There have now been nine televised hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. The main purpose of these hearings has been to publicly...
USSC's Senior Fellow Bruce Wolpe writes in Ticker News that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan is on after days of speculation and significant angst over what Pelosi’s visit would mean, especially...
Last month, the US Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional protection for abortion, overturning the nearly 50-year precedent established in Roe v Wade. In the 6-3 decision, Dobbs v Jackson Women’s...
The participation of the ‘Asia Pacific 4’ — Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea — in the NATO Summit in Madrid last month has generated considerable debate about the benefits and shortcomings...
Washington was the last of the Quad capitals that Richard Marles visited in his opening diplomatic salvo as Australia’s deputy prime minister and defence minister. But, as far as defence matters are concerned...
USSC Senior Fellow Bruce Wolpe writes in Ticker News that President Biden was in Israel when the shocking news came late last Thursday night in Washington. "Talks between Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader...
As the world responds in shock and sadness to the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, the public is also learning what a consequential statesman and loyal friend he was. I...
The recent NATO Summit in Madrid marked a welcome elevation in high-level coordination between the United States’ European and Indo-Pacific allies. For the first time, the leaders of Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and...
This research report sets out a path forward for a whole-of-government policy approach for Australia to maximise advanced capabilities opportunities under the AUKUS partnership. The report explains why Australia needs advanced capabilities cooperation...
On 24 June 2022, the US Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization revoked the constitutional right to an abortion in the United States guaranteed nearly 50...
Last week’s NATO summit will be remembered as historic for a number of reasons, most of all for having unveiled the new “Strategic Concept” for the alliance that was said to be searching...
When colonial Americans declared their independence on July 4 1776, they rejected more than British rule. They explicitly denounced the British form of government and the unlegislated norms, traditions and conventions a royal...
The Yoon Suk-yeol administration has expressed a desire for closer alignment with, and potential membership in, US-led minilateral groupings such as the Quad. But USSC’s Research Fellow Peter Lee writes in Korea on...
The 2021 census data released this week shows that, for the first time, a majority of Australians do not identify as Christians. This continues a trend of steep drops in Christian identification at...
USSC CEO Dr Michael Green writes in The Straits Times that Russian aggression and the Xi-Putin partnership are spurring a counterbalancing response as seen in the gathering of US Atlantic and Pacific allies...
At the June 2022 Madrid Summit, NATO Leaders are adopting a new Strategic Concept, which reaffirms the Alliance’s values and purpose, provides a collective assessment of the security environment and drives its strategic...
In recent years, scholars have debated the apparent lack of diplomatic leadership by “middle powers” like Australia and South Korea on the international stage. Such pessimism should be reconsidered, however, in light of...
Seventy-one years ago representatives of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States signed the ANZUS mutual security treaty in San Francisco to reinforce stability in East Asia after the outbreak of the Korean...
