Despite repeated assertions from the Biden administration that “America is back”, questions persist in Australia and around the world.

How inwardly focused is the United States? Is US support for Australia and its...

Australians are still surprised when the news from our parochial Commonwealth in a galaxy far, far away is noticed big time across the United States.

Sharks, gators, mice - we get that. But...

The holiday season for Christmas-New Year will soon be upon us. It is in the public interest that we avoid the type of debacle that overwhelmed the Prime Minister’s holiday sojourn in Hawaii...

In the second of two policy briefs with the NATO Defense College as part of her 2021 NATO Partners Across the Globe Fellowship, Dr Gorana Grgic assesses the value of NATO’s Partners Across...

In his first press conference as president back in March, Joe Biden said “We have to prove democracy works” by proving that the institutions of government work.

This week, two branches of the...

Australia and the United States have entered a new era of strategic competition with China. Following decades of US military supremacy in the Indo-Pacific, Washington’s approach to regional defence strategy is being re-evaluated...

Policy issues at the intersection of international security and international economics loom increasingly large for Australian and United States policymakers. Geoeconomic statecraft is the use of economic policy instruments to further geopolitical, foreign policy, and security objectives...

In Samuel Huntington’s controversial 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations he claimed that Australia was a “torn country.” Torn between its Anglosphere history and alliances on one side and its movement into deeper...

The world has been watching as the Chinese real estate giant Evergrande flails, and some have been asking whether Beijing will soon have a moment akin to 2008’s collapse of Lehman Brothers in...

For a journalist as thorough and exacting as Bob Woodward, the coda to Rage, his second book on the Trump presidency, was stunning. The greatest threat to the presidency “was Trump himself”...

USSC non-resident fellow John Lee has published a report for the Hudson Institute about troubled Chinese property group Evergrande. The company is facing one of China's largest-ever defaults as it struggles with more...

Before the AUKUS announcement, evidence that the Biden administration was prioritizing the Indo-Pacific region was scant.

Sure, the administration talked a lot about China, but President Joe Biden mostly cast this as a...

Australia’s recent decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines through the new Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) defense technology partnership has put its efforts to deter China’s rising military power on the global stage. But as...

Votes on President Biden’s agenda in Congress may be imminent – and at stake is the future of Biden’s presidency. Issues Australia cares about are in the balance too.

Democrats in the United...

Canberra’s momentous decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines through the new Aukus arrangement with London and Washington is an unmistakable sign of Australia’s commitment to balance China’s military power in the Indo-Pacific region.

But...

Jack Kennedy put it best. The 35th president of the United States once observed ruefully: “Too often we … enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

Lamentable, but true.

Washington...

USSC non-resident senior fellow Charles Edel writes in Foreign Policy that the trilateral partnership was an inevitable result of Beijing’s military growth.

Canberra’s announcement that it will acquire nuclear-powered submarines through its new defence pact with London and Washington, AUKUS, has generated considerable scrutiny. The decision to expand the basing and rotational presence of US...

Unlike last week’s AUKUS surprise, the Quad Leaders’ Summit in Washington, DC, is set to focus on geoeconomics, critical technology, health security and climate change. These are pressing regional issues over which Australia...