Tag: USA

(USA/Australia/International Development) What Biden means for Australia’s aid policy (The Interpreter)

DANE MOORES The US president has signalled a serious commitment to bolstering international development. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/what-biden-means-australia-s-aid-policy
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(USA/Australia/China/Trade) No quick fix from Biden for Australia’s China trade woes (East Asia Forum)

James Laurenceson, UTS Hopes are high that, with the Biden administration in the White House, the United States might come to Australia’s rescue as China...
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(USA/China/Trade) Will Biden’s America change course on China and trade? (East Asia Forum)

Charles R Hankla, Georgia State University US President Joe Biden’s administration must figure out how to pick up the pieces of former president Donald Trump’s...
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(USA/Politics) McConnell’s choice is emblematic of the GOP’s rot (AEI)

Jonah Goldberg The Republican Party is broken. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/mcconnells-choice-is-emblematic-of-the-gops-rot/
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(USA/Great Recession/Recovery) The recovery from the Great Recession: A long, evolving expansion (AEI)

Michael R. Strain, Jay C. Shambaugh Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/the-recovery-from-the-great-recession-a-long-evolving-expansion/
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(USA/Russia) More Coherence, Greater Tension: Prospects for US Policy toward Russia under Biden (INSS)

Ari Heistein Under President Trump, the United States did not have a coherent and unified Russia policy. Congress maintained a traditional approach of using sanctions...
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(USA/Economics/Climate Change) Getting the Social Cost of Carbon Right (Project-Syndicate)

NICHOLAS STERN, JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ US President Joe Biden's administration must put a high enough price on carbon pollution to encourage the scale and urgency of...
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(USA/Pentagon/Anti Extremism Campaign) Keep The Pentagon’s “Anti-Extremism” Campaign Short And Discriminate (1945)

By James Holmes That’s the advice Renaissance Florentine statesman-philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli would tender as the Pentagon sets out to purge “extremism”—shorthand for members of violent subversive groups—from...
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(USA/India) US-India ties under Biden: Recognising New Delhi’s predispositions (ORF)

KASHISH PARPIANI SUKANYA SEN During his confirmation hearing, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken deemed India to have been “a bipartisan success story of our successive...
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(USA/Pandemic/Cybersecurity) How the Covid19 emergency response could strengthen US Cybersecurity (ORF)

ANDREAS KUEHN BRUCE W. MCCONNELL The Biden-Harris Administration’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the legislative emergency package designed to combat COVID-19 through vaccinations, economic relief, and...
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(USA/Diego Garcia) The power of example: America’s presence in Diego Garcia (The Interpreter)

BLAKE HERZINGER US claims to upholding the rules-based order don’t squarewith its silence on Mauritian sovereignty in the Chagos. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/power-example-american-presence-diego-garcia
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(USA/Myanmar) US puts squeeze on Myanmar generals but sanctions regime needs review (The Strategist)

David Uren The imposition of US sanctions on the generals of Myanmar last week suggests that economic coercion will remain the first resort for President...
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(USA/China) How Biden will shape the US–China relationship (East Asia Forum)

Editorial Board, ANU The downward spiral in US–China relations during the Trump administration prompted many to assert that the United States and China were entering...
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(USA/JCPOA) The Tired Old Opposition to the Iran Nuclear Accord Rears Its Head (The National Interest)

Paul R. Pillar Now with a new administration preparing to bring the United States back into compliance with the agreement, the opposition machinery is gearing...
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(USA/Donald Trump/Joe Biden) The Real Winner of Trump’s Impeachment Trial Is Biden (The National Interest)

Jacob Heilbrunn Other than Donald Trump, no one is probably jubilant that the trial came to a swift end than Joe Biden. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/real-winner-trump%E2%80%99s-impeachment-trial-biden-178256
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(USA/Congress/Donald Trump) Why Congress Is Right to Acquit Donald Trump (The National Interest)

Aram Bakshian Jr. I look forward to never having to vote for Donald Trump again. But that choice should be mine, not that of partisan...
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