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The Trump Administration has shown a surprising amount of clarity on its intentions for trade policy in the Asia-Pacific. During the presidential campaign, Trump outlined a series of trade initiatives which, in comparison...
All eyes were on the US federal courts as justices first stayed, then refused to reinstate, the Trump administration's travel ban against seven Muslim-majority countries. For Americans who fear the new administration is...
Following the presidential election, then President Obama warned the incoming commander-in-chief that North Korea should be at the top of his to-do list. Obama’s policy of ‘strategic patience’ had run its course. Since...
Republicans say Australia is the United States' strongest ally, according to a recent survey featured in the New York Times. Yet Republicans in the US House of Representatives have been conspicuously absent in...
Research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes for U.S. News & World Report.
An opinion piece by senior fellow Tom Switzer for ASPI's The Strategist.
Research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes for Vox.
Commentary from research fellow Dougal Robinson published on The Interpreter.
US President Donald Trump has hinted at a more muscular US foreign policy in Asia–Pacific. In tweets and speeches since the election, he has adopted a hard-line on North Korea and his Asia...
Defence Secretary James Mattis was in Asia last weekend for his first trip abroad since taking over the Pentagon. His decision to visit South Korea and Japan before other US allies was a deliberate...
Research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes for U.S. News & World Report.
Chief executive Professor Simon Jackman writes for The Australian Financial Review.
Australia has passed its first test with the Trump Administration. The refugee resettlement deal announced by the Turnbull government and Obama administration after November's presidential election seemed at odds with the Trump administration’s controversial...
How would we know a good defence strategy if we saw one? The Asian Century is challenging many of the traditional assumptions at the heart of Australian defence policy and strategy. Defence scholars...
Research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes for U.S. News & World Report.
Interventionism, not isolationism, is the norm in US foreign policy – and Donald Trump’s rise will not change that. Senior lecturer Dr David Smith writes for The Conversation.
An opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review written by research fellow Dougal Robinson.
Research fellow Brendan Thomas-Noone writes for ASPI's The Strategist.
An article by research fellow Brendan Thomas-Noone written for The Interpreter.
Real-time analysis of the utterances of President Trump – and their global implications – has become a preoccupation for many around the world. This week the Alliance 21 team goes deeper to examine...
