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Biden administration moving to strip vaccine patents is an unprecedented step06/05/2021|2min Globally there has been a lot of pressure for wealthy nations to share vaccines with developing countries and one of the big hurdles for the United States has been patent protection for vaccines. The Biden administration overnight chose to waive a few of the patents protecting the vaccines in an “extremely significant move” which angered the pharmaceutical industry, according to Perth USAsia Centre...

Republican Party should rightly be called the Trump Party06/05/2021|4min The Republican Party still has loyalty to former President Donald Trump and is beginning to abandon Republicans who do not like Trump like Liz Cheney, according to Perth USAsia Centre CEO Gordon Flake. “The opinion within the remains of the Republican Party is overwhelmingly pro-Trump and as such overwhelmingly furious with formerly very conservative Republicans like former presidential candidate and standard-bearer Mitt...

Since Joe Biden took office in January, he and his administration have made it clear that the United States is re-engaging in multilateralism. ASPI Executive Director Peter Jennings talks with Gordon Flake, CEO of the Perth USAsia Centre, about Biden’s foreign and climate policy agendas, and the importance of alliances and repairing some of America’s reputational damage. Following the first-ever leader-level Quad summit in March 2021, ASPI’s Michael Shoebridge is joined by Lavina Lee, sen...

Vijay Gokhale, former Foreign secretary of India and Indian ambassador to China Mihoko Matsubara, Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, NTT Corporation in Tokyo Romana Vlahutin, Ambassador at Large for Connectivity, European External Action Service Chaired by Frédéric Grare, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR The European Council on Foreign Relations is launching a new project on the Indo-Pacific, to foster a joint understanding of the region from a pan-European perspective. From security to free trade, g...

Perth USAsia Centre CEO Gordon Flake says the passing of the $1.9 trillion US stimulus package is something which appears to be “deeply popular”. The United States House of Representatives has passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package paving the way for President Joe Biden to sign off on the bill on Saturday. Democrats were unified over Republican opposition and passed the legislation which will provide one of the largest injections of federal aid since the Great Depression “Current opinion ...

Perth USAsia CEO Gordon Flake says the executive order signed today by President Joe Biden will highlight the importance of Australia to the United States because of its role in the supply chain. Mr Biden claimed the order will strengthen vulnerabilities in supply chains across critical sectors of the US – including rare earths. Mr Flake pointed to Australia as being a “trusted” part of the US supply chain because it houses the only commercial scale rare earths processing company outside...

Perth USAsia CEO Gordon Flake says America has an important leadership role to play in the world and expects President Joe Biden to be successful in doing so. Mr Biden has been in power for a week and has already signed a multitude of executive orders. “One that it hasn’t played for a better part of the last four years,” Mr Flake told Sky News. Mr Flake said the return of science and transparency is one of the most important things since Mr Biden took office. “For a long time the US has ...

Save Share When governments change, Paul Keating once noted, you change the country. Nowhere is this more evident and immediate these past few days than in Washington, DC, where the speed of adjustment has stunned even experienced watchers. It might even be reaching Gough Whitlam levels, with Joe Biden wasting no time obliterating, with a flood of executive orders, as much of Donald Trump’s legacy as he can. He’s been aided by the fact the former president failed to enshrine many of h...

Bombshell White House document reveals US plan to defend Taiwan against China 13 Jan, 2021 04:55 PM 5 minutes to read The US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific has been declassified. Photo / White House news.com.au A US national security document stamped "SECRET" has been declassified and published, revealing the superpower would defend Taiwan against an attack from China. The 10-page "US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific" report, approved by President Donald Trump for implementati...