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Arizona Republican John McCain is among the most powerful people to have occupied a US Senate seat. An undoubted war hero (despite the trashing of his reputation by Donald Trump) who suffered mightily...
When US Defence Secretary James Mattis made his first trip to Asia last February, regional allies and partners were cautiously relieved. Donald Trump had spent months condemning Japan and South Korea as free-riders...
US rapper Kendrick Lamar’s Australian tour kicks off this week, culminating in a headline appearance at the music festival Splendour in the Grass.
Lamar’s most recent album, DAMN., not only topped the charts...
In San Francisco, a household that makes US$100,000 per year is considered low-income. A studio apartment there rents for about AU$850 per week. In Cupertino, home of Apple headquarters, the median home value...
USSC non-resident senior fellow John Lee wrote about the value of a plan for the Indo-Pacific that involves ASEAN and doesn't openly target China.
We should not underestimate the seriousness of the trade war unfolding between the United States and the rest of the world.
Global trade is facing its biggest threat since the US introduced the...
Following a landslide victory in Mexico's presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is president-elect of one the world's most populous democracies.
The political coalition he leads, Juntos Haremos Historia - which encompasses the...
For the first 18 months, Donald Trump’s administration has systematically deprioritised human rights — driven largely by the president’s disinterest, ‘America first’ transactionalism, and ‘pattern of appreciation for strongman-type leaders’. This is a...
Research fellow with the Foreign Policy and Defence Program Brendan Thomas-Noone wrote for the International Institute for Strategic Studies in the wake of the 2018 Shangri-La Dialogue.
He analysed a speech by Singaporean...
USSC visiting scholar and senior fellow Charles Edel and Hal Brands write for The National Interest that the US founding fathers had a tragic mindset that determined the bounds of the republic they...
Recent volatility in US stock markets has been attributed to speculation about new restrictions on foreign investment in the United States. The Trump administration has been sending mixed signals on the issue, but...
This weekend, the streets of America were once again clogged with protesters as people marched in opposition to the administration’s detention of migrant children. A few days earlier, more than 600 women were...
The value of the alliance is its preservation of something that may seem intangible, and yet nevertheless is essential to the security, prosperity and values of both of our nations: support for a...
The ongoing absence of a US ambassador to Australia has generated plenty of political and academic debate over whether or not the Trump administration is taking the ANZUS alliance seriously. While the current...
Senior non-resident fellow John Lee wrote in the Weekly Standard about Australia's legislative response to Beijing's "grand objective" of regional dominance.
Donald Trump insists that trade wars are “good and easy to win” and that the United States has nothing to lose from taking a confrontational approach to China on trade, citing the size...
Bharat Karnad and Sumona Guha argue whether India should pursue deeper military ties with the United States as it stakes out a global leadership role.
Recent research into the US tech industry shows that while diversity is deemed important, active involvement in ensuring its increase is less apparent. In comparison, the tech industry in Australia is ramping up...
If you want to understand the crisis unfolding on the US-Mexican border, one photograph, featured on the front page of the New York Times last week, captures it in its stark inhumanity.
Sometimes the future arrives overnight. Take SpaceX's February launch, when spent sections of the rocket guided themselves back from the edge of space, settling on the pad like improbably balanced telephone poles straight...
