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How Canberra can ride out the Congress car crash
Australia has to invest in long-term relationships, many of which rely on institutions that remind us of the glory days of American democracy.
American politics clocked up another first this week when members of the lower chamber sacked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. It’s an event that will reverberate way beyond Capitol Hill.
A fractious and dysfunctional Congress adds to the mayhem in the run-up to the US presidential and congressional elections in November next year. It also makes it less likely the world’s greatest democracy will steer some time soon to a safe mooring between an overly hawkish approach hell-bent on antagonising China and an isolationist force that abandons Ukraine.
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