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Australian leaders don't often talk about nuclear deterrence.
But in a pair of coordinated statements in Parliament last week on Pine Gap and other joint defence facilities, Defence Minister Christopher Pyne and his...
When Donald Trump sits down to talk to Kim Jong-un tomorrow, it will be the second meeting between a US leader who touts himself as a master negotiator against the young leader of...
The wage price index rose 2.3 per cent through 2018. After subtracting the inflation rate of 1.8 per cent, real wages grew a modest 0.5 per cent, below recent growth in productivity. Weakness...
Though more than 18 months away, the 2020 presidential race is well under way in the United States.
With an unpopular Republican incumbent, the Democratic Party is attracting a huge field, with at...
As with many of his unprecedented moves, President Donald Trump’s declaration of the state of emergency dominated the media cycle last week to the point that nearly all other news of significance for...
...that is the question (apologies: Hamlet). At deadline for this edition of The 45th there is cautious optimism in Washington that President Trump will sign the bipartisan compromise legislation that provides limited funding...
When Donald Trump first threatened a trade war with China shortly after assuming the presidency, the consensus around the world was that it was typical bluff and bluster. As per the common wisdom...
Last week Chinese state intelligence officials detained Australian Yang Hengjun on suspicion of endangering national security.
He is not alone. Last month two Canadian businessmen, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, were abruptly detained...
The partial shutdown of the US government – at 35 days, the longest in US history – was a clear political loss for President Trump.
The polls showed it. Voters rejected Trump’s connection of...
“I will accept nothing less for our nation than the most effective, cutting-edge missile defence systems,” President Trump said at the Pentagon last week. He was there to launch the Missile Defense Review...
Non-resident senior fellow John Lee writes for The National Interest about how the nature of Chinese and US strategy means that ASEAN has to make a clear choice for one or the other.
Australian political leaders are under growing pressure to sign a new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
It will be high on the agenda at the ALP national conference, since 78 per...
Australia and the United States have a lot in common: liberal, democratic institutions; advanced technology; largely open economies; growing populations; infrastructure needs; and above all, abundant energy resources.
But new research published by...
Senior fellow Charles Edel looks back at Czeslaw Milosz' 1951 The Captive Mind for The Washington Post and examines the relevance of his account of the slide into authoritarianism that occurred in Poland...
The meeting between the US and Chinese presidents stole the headlines coming out of the G20 leaders’ meeting in Buenos Aires. Almost unreported was the failure of the Brisbane Action Plan that was...
Non-resident senior fellow John Lee spoke to CNN about the the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jingping on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Argentina where it was agreed to place...
This week, Washington is funereal. Today, the city halts, the National Cathedral in repose as a pulpit of mourning. Partisanship ebbs from Capitol Hill. A White House muted. These are the traditions, pageantry...
It’s not unusual for most of us to find ourselves at the end of the year with a little less money in our accounts than we had hoped. But for the National Rifle...
Talks between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires concluded on Saturday night with applause, but no joint statement.
Chinese state television announced that...
George HW Bush may have been the most underrated US president since Harry Truman, and like the haberdasher from Missouri, probably deserves to be elevated in the judgement of history beyond contemporary assessment...
