Joseph Giglio
There is no getting around the fact that the United States’ primary strategic competitor for global leadership is the People’s Republic of China, which continues to extend its diplomatic, economic, and military influence internationally. Quite apart from China becoming the world’s second largest economy and its leading trading nation, policy makers increasingly describe its military buildup as a threat to U.S. and allied interests in the Indo-Pacific.
Put simply, the Pentagon considers China it most serious competition. Taiwan may be the issue with the greatest potential to turn competition into direct confrontation. Many military analysts note that after two decades of counterinsurgency wars, the U.S. can no longer be certain of its ability to uphold a favorable balance of power in the Indo-Pacific.
Thursday 29 April marked US President Joe Biden’s hundredth day in office, a symbolic milestone used to measure the impact of a new administration. ASPI’s executive director, Peter Jennings, is joined by Bruce Wolpe, senior fellow with the United States Studies Centre, to discuss Biden’s achievements so far, in areas such as the response to the pandemic, climate policy, and the domestic and foreign policy challenges facing the administration.
Taiwan has been receiving increased international attention recently, partly because of its successful pandemic response but also due to cross-strait tensions. ASPI research intern Elena Yi-Ching Ho speaks to Wen-Ti Sung, lecturer in the Taiwan Studies Program at the Australian National University, about cross-strait relations, the potential for military conflict and whether the status quo is still sustainable.
US Studies Centre appoints former Trump Chief of Staff, ASIO head
Mulvaney has a history of anti-LGBT views, while Lewis sits on the board of Thales Australia.
April 27, 2021
The United States Studies Centre (USSC) today announced that Mick Mulvaney, the former Chief of Staff in the Trump administration, will join the Centre as a Non-Resident Fellow. Duncan Lewis, the former Director-General of ASIO, has also been appointed as a Non-Resident Fellow.
Mulvaney was a Republican South Carolina legislator from 2007-2011, before being elected to the US House of Representatives in 2011. He served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under the Trump administration before being appointed as Chief of Staff to President Trump in December 2018. He was replaced in March 2020.
Are U.S. Bases in Asia Vulnerable to Chinese Missiles? Very.
For its part, Washington must stop trying to do it all alone and afford allies and friends the deference their interests and contributions warrant.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Beijing can now hope to fend off U.S. reinforcements from coming to the aid of regional allies, to slow them down, or to make the effort so expensive in terms of lives and hardware that no U.S. president would order the attempt.
The University of Sydney’s United States Studies Center (USSC) set policy circles aflutter when it issued a novella-length report that questions the staying power of U.S. military strategy in the Indo-Pacific theater while urging inhabitants of the region to take up their share of the defense burden vis-à-vis a domineering China. Read the whole thing.
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