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  • 7 Mar 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Letters from a more dignified America (Part 2)

    Mark Ryan
    There are, without question, contemporary Rostows and Marshalls in the US serving their country quietly and conscientiously.
  • 6 Mar 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Letters from a more dignified America

    Mark Ryan
    As Donald Trump bullied and bragged his way to the Oval Office, I recalled two of Alistair Cooke’s Letters from America.
  • 1 Mar 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Welcome to the post-American era

    Sam Roggeveen
    America is transitioning from an indispensable nation, the guarantor of the global rules-based order, to a normal great power.
  • 28 Feb 2017
    • China
    • Japan
    • The Trump Presidency

    Quick comment: Seiichiro Takagi on China, Trump and Japan-Australia relations

    John Gooding
    Yesterday afternoon Euan Graham spoke with prominent Japanese Sinologist Seiichiro Takagi.
  • 28 Feb 2017
    • Japan
    • The Trump Presidency

    Abe's Trump moves: Proactive pragmatism at its finest

    Yuki Tatsumi
    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has accomplished what no other foreign leaders has with US President Donald Trump.
  • 24 Feb 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Saving NAFTA: Canada’s three-point playbook

    Brendan Thomas-Noone
    The big worry for Canada has been Trump’s economic nationalism: 20% of Canada’s GDP comes from US exports.
  • 23 Feb 2017
    • Japan
    • The Trump Presidency

    Why Australia and Japan need a Plan B

    Andrew O'Neil , Michael Heazle
    Major change is underway in the region and has been for some time.
  • 22 Feb 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Julie Bishop's Washington mission: Find out who's running the show

    Nick Bisley
    Perhaps the most important task is to get a sense of who will prevail in the contest for foreign and defence policy influence in the Trump administration.
  • 20 Feb 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump versus American institutions: The foreign-policy battleground

    Aaron L Connelly
    Over time, Trump is likely to experience fewer difficulties executing policy by fiat.
  • 15 Feb 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump's info wars not so easily won

    James Bowen
    The communications strategy employed during Trump's successful primaries and general election campaigns has not been as effective since the inauguration.
  • 15 Feb 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    On Australia, rank-and-file House Republicans are nowhere to be seen

    Dougal Robinson
    Republicans in the US House of Representatives have been conspicuously absent in the last two weeks while the rest of Congress has rallied around Australia.
  • 15 Feb 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Flynn the first casualty in chaotic Trump White House

    Barbara Slavin
    It's clear the process of building coherent strategies to deal with domestic and foreign policy concerns is going to take longer than many have hoped.
  • 14 Feb 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump critics need to be careful what they cheer for

    Sam Roggeveen
    Many journalists and commentators have done themselves a lot of harm, and Trump a lot of favours, by the lack of judgment they have shown in their criticisms.
  • 13 Feb 2017
    • Iran
    • The Trump Presidency

    Tense times for the Iran nuclear deal

    Saeed Bagheri , Sahar Nejati Karimabad
    Russia, China and the UK have all recently expressed their support for the agreement.
  • 9 Feb 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Congress rallies around Australia

    Dougal Robinson
    Trump’s inner circle cannot have missed such broad-ranging, bipartisan opposition to the president’s approach with the Australian prime minister.
  • 8 Feb 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    How Trump's economic plans will come unstuck

    John Edwards
    At some point the Trump Administration will have to confront the fact that the US economy is in better shape than Trump depicted during the campaign.
  • 6 Feb 2017
    • Migration
    • The Trump Presidency

    Losing the plot on immigration policy

    Peter Hughes
    If immigration policy is now about winning domestic political points - to the exclusion of all else - we can expect much more unnecessary human suffering.
  • 6 Feb 2017
    • Migration
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump's travel ban likely to go to US Supreme Court

    Linda Kirk
    Legal experts are divided on whether the executive order violates the Constitution and federal law.
  • 6 Feb 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Mattis visit unlikely to calm Trump-rattled allies

    Robert E Kelly
    President's Trump’s taste for melodrama and conflict undercuts US envoys such as Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
  • 3 Feb 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    The Trump call forces Australia to confront a big question

    Sam Roggeveen
    In an environment of such unpredictability, it is more important than ever that our leaders hold fast to a sense of what ultimately matters to Australia.
  • 2 Feb 2017
    • Migration
    • The Trump Presidency

    Australian immigration in the Trump era

    Henry Sherrell
    The Trump Administration presents the best opportunity we will ever have to present Australia as a place of welcome and innovation.
  • 31 Jan 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    The three factors that will drive US policy in Asia

    Nick Bisley
    Hard power at the service of America is now the centrepiece of US international policy.
  • 30 Jan 2017
    • US Economy
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump’s trade protectionism

    Stephen Grenville
    The key is a vibrant economy that creates new jobs. Trump’s protectionist measures are a distraction from this bigger challenge.
  • 23 Jan 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump's CIA speech reveals a challenge to America's 'deep state'

    Euan Graham
    In Trump's mind, the media and the intelligence community are intimately connected as arbiters of 'ground truth', to be tamed and controlled.
  • 21 Jan 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    From Obama optimism to Trumpian gloom

    Barbara Slavin
    The new president has a lot to learn and has shown a limited capacity to evolve.
  • 18 Jan 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump and the intelligence community

    Crispin Rovere
  • 12 Jan 2017
    • South China Sea
    • The Trump Presidency

    South China Sea: Tillerson throws a rhetorical bomb

    Sam Roggeveen
    The normally restrained Reuters said Tillerson had 'set a course for a potentially serious confrontation with Beijing'. Reuters is not exaggerating
  • 13 Dec 2016
    • The Trump Presidency

    Meet Rex Tillerson: Trump's pick for Secretary of State

    Tony Walker
    Most attention since Tillerson emerged as favorite for State has focused on his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  • 5 Dec 2016
    • The Trump Presidency

    James Mattis: Mad Dog, warrior monk and defence sec nominee

    Tony Walker
    James Mattis has nothing in his record to suggest he is a crude partisan.
  • 20 Oct 2016
    • Russia
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election
    • The Trump Presidency

    US-Russia rivalry takes the stage

    Matthew Sussex
    Trump has absolutely nothing to gain by defending the Kremlin. Russian citizens don’t vote in US elections.
  • 20 Oct 2016
    • United States
    • Russia
    • The Trump Presidency

    Don't count on the Russians backing down this time

    Matthew Dal Santo
    The stakes in Syria remain incredibly high.
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