US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman says there is no denying that vaccine diplomacy is one of the many factors being deployed in the great power rivalry between the US and China.
World leaders are currently meeting in the United Kingdom for the G7 summit.
President Biden has pledged to provide 500 million vaccines to the world.
China too has announced it will support surrounding nations with vaccines.
“The COVAX initiative formed a big talking point and no doubt will feature prominently in the announcements that we expect to see coming out of the G7,” Mr Jackman told Sky News.
Australia and the United States are both calling for an end to the conflict in the Gaza Strip but America has the “historical and ongoing leverage” to be able to end the clashes, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman.
“While an expression from Australia is obviously welcome and appropriate the real big actor is the United States, the historical and ongoing leverage it has with regards to Israel and to a lesser extent Palestine as well,” he told Sky News.
Mr Jackman said America “being dragged back into the Middle East” is difficult to understand from an Australian point of view as we are focussed on what is happening in our part of the world.
“From an Australian perspective mission number one has to be Indo-Pacific matters much closer to home.”
Liz Cheney was removed from her position in Congress because “she was running a different narrative” than the Republicans want to push, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman.
“What I think you’re seeing is an effort to consolidate the Republican Party (for) what’s going to be their strategy for those 2022 elections,” he told Sky News.
“The Republicans are going to be thinking of this base election, Democrat turnout is not going to be as high as it was when the presidency was at stake and the voice that are splitting the Republican Party at the moment need to be silenced.”
Mr Jackman said the Republicans were pushing the view former President Donald Trump was robbed at the 2020 election and Ms Cheney was saying President Trump was “perpetuating a great lie that was damaging to the US Constitution.”
“As brutal as the politics are, the silencing of the number three Republican in Congress and someone with the name Cheney – Republican Party royalty f
President Joe Biden’s ambitious climate plan to halve the US emissions by 2030 may not have the support from Congress it needs “to match the aspiration” of what it is trying to achieve, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman.
“To reach the ambition he even laid out for the 2030 target he needs Congress to act, I don’t know if the appetite is there in Congress to match the aspiration he talked about in the global climate summit,” he told Sky News.
“Something is going to happen, I think there’s a lot of money there particularly that electric vehicle spend, that’s a lot money going to almost every congressional district in the country, you’ll get few votes against that.”
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Biden s spending plans are the biggest expansion of the state since the 1960s30/04/2021|5min
President Joe Biden has had a “remarkable 100 days” as he announces massive spending to fund social reform like past President Lyndon Baines Johnson, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman.
“Increasingly I’m looking (at) historical analogues, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, in terms of the rallying of the nation around a grand purpose and that purpose is, as Biden said in that speech to Congress, the fight for the 21st Century to show the world that democracy still works,” he told Sky News.
“The suite of spending programs he is announcing is nothing other than the biggest expansion of the state since Lyndon Johnson’s grand society plan of the mid ‘60s and of course he’s got the political tailwinds of a stronger than expected vaccine rollout.”