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March

US President Donald Trump has been fortunate to start with an obedient Congress.

Trump’s attack on the judiciary: ‘speed and intent is remarkable’

The US president is testing constitutional limits and challenging the courts to stop him. Who will blink first?

January

President Donald Trump, along side first lady Melania Trump, said he won’t be responsible if attacks happen.

‘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.

January 2024

Donald Trump in the driver’s seat of an 18-wheeler at the White House in March 2017.

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.

October 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during celebrations marking the incorporation of regions of Ukraine to join Russia in Red Square on Friday night (Saturday AEST).

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.

September 2022

A US guided-missile cruiser in the Taiwan Strait last month. US policy on Taiwan could entail a heavy price for America and its allies.

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.

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August 2022

Former national security adviser to the US president Donald Trump.

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.

February 2022

John Bolton says Putin’s ultimate aim is a landlocked Ukraine.

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.

November 2021

Donald Trump has repeatedly indicated that he could seek the Republican candidacy in the next presidential election.

‘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.

September 2021

Fiona Hill testifies during Trump’s impeachment hearing in November, 2019.

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.

January 2021

Mike Pompeo. Beijing accused him of having “seriously violated” China’s sovereignty.

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.

December 2020

Trump has yet to accept his election loss.

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.

November 2020

Demonstrators gather during the "Million MAGA March" at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC.

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.

September 2020

Kim Jong-un shakes hands with US President Donald Trump in June 2019.

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.

Former FBI director James Comey wrote a memoir after being fired by the US President.

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.

August 2020

Alex Azar

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.

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July 2020

John Bolton: China is "not just in secret communications; not just in government communications, but in commercial communications - or... just personal communications".

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.

John Bolton: "None of us wants to be a commodity supplier to China."

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.

Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton.

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.

Ajit Pai: “Both companies have close ties to the Chinese Communist party and military apparatus and are subject to Chinese law obligating them to co-operate with the intelligence services."

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.

June 2020

Senior aides described Donald Trump as "delusional".

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.

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