A war of words has broken out between Australian and US political veterans over whether the status of Taiwan is a key Western security interest.
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Many years beyond the average American retirement age, politicians vie for power and influence. Their constituents tend to prefer they step back and pass the torch to younger people.
In the wake of the three-week internal GOP battle to choose a speaker, a scholar of Congress says that what looks like dysfunction is actually something else.
The House of Representatives is breaking norms and establishing a new way for the body to do business.
The status quo in terms of Canada’s protection of public officials is untenable and poses a serious risk to the country’s national security.
For decades, there were growing numbers of Democratic and Republican women in Congress, but the number of Republican women has stalled.
The hard-right of the Republican Party is exerting pressures on candidates to be the next speaker of the House.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced she will step aside from senior leadership. It could lead to generational change in the Democratic Party.
The rise in contemporary right-wing political extremism – and violence – can be traced back to events in the 1990s.
Welcome to an era of two parallel worlds in global business.
Visits by foreign law-makers to Taiwan are nothing new. So why did China react in such a heavy-handed manner to Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit?
Washington must continue to support Taiwan while seeking a better security dialogue with Beijing.
Beijing’s response to the visit by the US speaker has a lot do with internal Chinese politics.
While Chinese American voters are not a homogeneous group, many people who have ancestral ties to the region are unlikely to question their support for Nancy Pelosi just because of her Taiwan trip.
The US speak of the house’s visit to Taiwan has provoked more sabre-rattling from China, but neither China nor the US will want tensions to escalate further.
Chinese fighter jets buzzed the line separating China and Taiwan just hours before the US House speaker arrived on the island.
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