If Australia calls, would Trump answer? Would the politicisation of alliances among the American people allow a future president to answer? Forget about impeachment. We should look at how Trump’s changing the foundations that Australia relies on | OPINION
The bad news? US allies should expect no loyalty. Many have already learned this, to their cost. Australia should learn from their experience. Trump has made decisions that hurt Australia’s national interests – the US abandonment of trade liberalisation, for instance, and Washington’s vandalisation of the Paris carbon agreement. But he has yet to inflict any direct injury on Australia in the bilateral relationship. Among US allies, perhaps only Israel has suffered as little.
Every Australian prime minister describes the US alliance as the cornerstone of Australian security. The ANZUS treaty, never a guarantee, is probably less reliable now than at any time since it was signed in 1951. The cornerstone has the wobbles. Trump will trade away Australian interests without hesitation. He’s doing it now at the negotiating table with China, for example. Every time the US demands that Beijing increase America’s share of China’s imports, it cuts into Australia’s share.
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