Preparing for the new US president, Anthony Albanese is attempting to walk an agreeable but assertive Australian path. It will take more than tough talk.
is taking power in the United States. Others are just as trapped as the prime minister while they watch the walls shake and the lights flicker – all of them wondering how to survive the demands of a dealmaker president.
So Albanese is hardly alone in making a careful approach to Trump. The early phase seems positive: Trump calls the relationship with Australia a “perfect friendship”. The problem is that Australia needs the new administration to show consistency on trade and reliability on defence – two qualities Trump lacks.
But Trump has a stated plan to impose 60 per cent tariffs on China and 20 per cent on others, with no mention of special favours. And he has just named One group is noticeably silent. The members of the Trans Pacific Partnership, a free trade group that took shape at APEC summits a decade ago, are not talking publicly about meeting in Lima. The 11 members include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore. All have an interest in resisting Trump’s trade barriers. While the TPP has met on the sidelines of APEC in the past, there is no such meeting this year.
Those findings are essential context when Albanese attempts to stand up for free trade at the two summits. How pointed will he be in resisting the Trump agenda when he clearly needs to avoid provoking a volatile leader? Rudd is in a tenuous position because of his past remarks about Trump. But why race to dump him just because Dan Scavino, a Trump loyalist, posted an
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