Biden wants to restore US global leadership after four years of Trump’s isolationism and antagonism. These are some of the challenges and opportunities he’ll face, from China to Latin America.
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A survey of 800 foreign policy experts identified four international issues where Republicans and Democrats may actually cooperate to get something done – and one area of severe disagreement.
The Trump administration’s policies affected Africa in detrimental ways.
After a disastrous few years under the Trump administration, Australia must find a way to confront China on bullying behaviour while seeking its co-operation on climate change and trade.
A round-up of expert analysis from across the world on Biden’s win.
America might be coming back under the new US president, Joe Biden, but this is not the same world or the same country it once was.
A stronger partnership between China and Indonesia may impact Indonesia’s relationship with the US.
What started as Trump’s petty complaints on trade with China eventually escalated into what many call ‘a new Cold War’.
There is a risk of a ‘great fracture’ between the US and China. But unlike the Cold War, so far, no one has brandished a shoe at the General Assembly.
Chinese fishermen are illegally trawling South American waters, inflaming tensions with the US. But for centuries Washington used aggressive fishing to expand its overseas presence, too.
Banning the Chinese-owned social media platforms raises free speech concerns and could worsen the US-China trade war.
In 2016 Trump promised to ‘shake the rust off America’s foreign policy.’ Four years later, it’s clearer what that looks like: a US that sits on the sidelines of world crises and collaborations alike.
An app that young people use to share videos of themselves dancing might seem like a silly diversion, but it’s become a powerhouse social media platform.
How would Joe Biden engage a world upended by Trump? A diplomacy expert explains what Biden’s history says about his foreign policy priorities.
The US used to remain neutral on China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea. Why it changed tack.
Southeast Asian countries need to rethink their ties with the two great powers and try to reduce their dependency on them.
Election campaigns tend to expose faultlines. 2020 will do that in spades.
With the US exercises in the South China Sea, the security and political environment is treacherous at a moment when China itself feels under siege.
The US may want to rethink its anti-China policy as Beijing’s focus on providing international coronavirus aid and digital and health care investments seems to be working.
It’s not just the coronavirus that is upping the ante, but tensions over Huawei and other technologies that are threatening to create a new cold war. And Australia will be caught in the middle.
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Tony Walker AM is a Friend of The Conversation.Director, La Trobe University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor of International Studies, La Trobe University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor, Technology and Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Director of China-Indonesia Desk, Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS)
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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