January
‘They can hire their own’: Trump ends security for Fauci, Bolton
President Donald Trump said he would feel no responsibility if Anthony Fauci or John Bolton were attacked.
- Stephanie Lai
January 2024
- Opinion
- Trump's America
The roots of Trump nostalgia run deeply both left and right
As the former president’s support holds, many Republicans console themselves by remembering years when it felt like they were running the Trump presidency.
- Ross Douthat
October 2022
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
In this Kyiv coffee shop, the threat of nuclear annihilation is a joke
Life goes on in Ukraine’s capital, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin steps up the rhetoric and sends hundreds of thousands of troops to the frontline.
- Updated
- Misha Zelinsky
September 2022
- Opinion
- Australia's China challenge
What Australia should do about Taiwan
Canberra cannot be silent if US policy on Taiwanese independence changes. Quiet diplomacy is called for to warn against policies that recklessly risk war with China.
- James Curran
August 2022
- Exclusive
- China relations
Bolton tells Canberra to build more alliances and let Japan into AUKUS
Australia should lead with a network of military, political and economic links across the region, says Donald Trump’s former security adviser, John Bolton.
- Lisa Murray and Mark Mulligan
February 2022
March on Kyiv hides Putin’s real aim: Bolton
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton says Vladimir’s Putin real goal is to carve off parts of Ukraine and cut the country off from the sea.
- Misha Zelinsky
November 2021
‘Trump allies want him not to run in 2024 to avoid disastrous defeat’
The Atlantic reported that one of Donald Trump’s former campaign advisers said they planned to warn the former president he could be known as a serial loser.
- Thomas Colson
September 2021
What it’s like to work for an American dictator in the making
Donald Trump saw strongman leaders like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping as an exclusive club, writes former senior US official Fiona Hill in a new memoir.
- Gideon Rachman
January 2021
China sanctions Trump officials including Mike Pompeo
China took the move a day after Donald Trump’s administration declared that the repression and detention of more than 1m Muslim Uighurs in the north-western Xinjiang region amounted to genocide.
- Demetri Sevastopulo
December 2020
Supreme Court humiliation for Trump as Electoral College vote looms
At least 86 judges, some appointed by Donald Trump himself, have rejected lawsuits filed by the President or his supporters since the November 3 election.
- Jacob Greber
November 2020
Defiant Trump seems to acknowledge Biden win
President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden won the White House, but made clear he would not concede and would keep trying to overturn the election result.
- Michael Shear
September 2020
Donald Trump's romance with Kim Jong-un laid bare
Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a deeply personal courtship between the two leaders of long-hostile nations that has few precedents in diplomatic history but it is set to end in heartbreak.
- Michael Hirsh
Donald Trump is making book sales great again
From White House memoirs and journalistic exposés to full-throated defenses of the president, the Trump books keep coming and readers can't stop buying them.
- Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter
August 2020
- Opinion
- China relations
Taiwan and the US: 'much thunder, little rain'
A senior US official's visit to Taiwan this month seems to come as close to crossing one of China’s 'red lines' as possible.
- Douglas Paal
July 2020
- Exclusive
- Huawei ban
Businesses, individuals should fear Huawei too, says Bolton
Former US national security adviser warns China's ability to spy through Huawei's 5G network is as dangerous for businesses and individuals as governments.
- Jacob Greber
- Exclusive
- Trump's White House
Bolton tells Australia: 'Stand up to China'
"If this is the way China behaves now, how will it behave if its position becomes even stronger?" wonders Donald Trump's former national security adviser in an interview with Jacob Greber.
- Jacob Greber
- Exclusive
- Trump's America
White House 'confusion' over Russia bounties hurts allies, says Bolton
Australia and other US allies should be pressing Donald Trump for clarity over whether Russia paid terrorists bounty money to target troops in Afghanistan.
- Jacob Greber
Huawei and ZTE classified as security threat to US
The move against Huawei and ZTE is part of a broader effort by the US to clamp down on everything from Chinese theft of intellectual property to commercial and traditional espionage.
- Demetri Sevastopulo
June 2020
Trump's phone calls with world leaders alarmed aides, says CNN
Carl Bernstein claims Mr Trump was so abusive to American allies the phone calls convinced senior US officials the President posed a national security risk.
- Updated
- Mark Mulligan
Trump retweets racist video showing supporter yelling ‘white power’
The video shows a white man in a golf cart bearing 'Trump 2020' and 'America First' signs in what looks like an angry clash between Florida senior citizens.
- Michael Shear