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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 polls show public approval of the relief bill about 75 per cent,” Mr Flake told Sky News. “In a ...

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 of China. “It’s good to see the United States taking a focus on this looking at it through the...

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 not led on the data, because they have deliberately stopped reporting on or considering it.”

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 his achievements in legislation, making them fragile and easily unpicked or reversed with the briefes...

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 implementation in 2018, was previously not for release to foreign nationals. Read More Its declassification and ...