Yesterday
The Trump effect is a wrecking ball, and we’re in the blast zone
As the US president declares victory at every turn, he will leave behind a changed world. The implications for Australia are profound.
This Month
Trump’s pause no relief from great power showdown on trade
Australia confronts a worrying dilemma as the economic conflict between our major alliance partner and our major trade partner ramps up.
Could Trump’s tariffs decouple Europe from China, too?
The levies may trigger a strategic diversion of Chinese exports from America to the EU, eventually compelling European governments to respond with their own trade barriers.
Morrison-backed space start-up lands NASA tie-up
A start-up chaired by former prime minister Scott Morrison has huge goals of building an Australian spaceport and developing horizontal rocket launch technology.
Trump’s colossal misjudgment will cost the US – and the world – dearly
Donald Trump is pretending the sharemarket carnage is all part of his grand plan to use tariffs to reboot the US economy. What happens when Main Street revolts?
Yellen and Hockey ride out Trump tariffs at Cafe Sydney
The former US treasury secretary was spotted lunching in Sydney as tariff news roiled global markets.
Trump’s tariffs call for regional foreign policy response
The political class must resist the temptation to be swept up in the parochialism of current events.
How Trump has soured my American dream
There was a chilling edge to the president’s declaration this would be “an entirely different country within a short period of time”.
Trump trade risks go back to the 1890s
The president’s American tariff hero William McKinley shows how this new trade war will go wrong.
The day the international economic system died in the Rose Garden
It’s hard to say how bad the impact of Trump’s tariffs will be. But there is no doubt a global trade war would have major impacts on geoeconomic and geostrategic settings.
Why Malcolm Turnbull is wrong about AUKUS
Rather than repeatedly reassessing the submarine program, we should concentrate our political and intellectual capital on ensuring it stays the course.
March
For Trump, the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must
The US president’s hastiness to secure peace overlooks the often laborious work usually required for a long-term, stable and durable solution to a conflict.
Australia should look to uranium as a chance to dodge Trump’s tariffs
Developing processing of the nuclear fuel with American firms would address US national security concerns and also attract significant interest from Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
The fundamental problem at the heart of defence policy
Australia is facing its most dangerous external environment since the Second World War. Yet, its capacity to deliver a meaningful capability to meet the hour operates on Old Father Time.
Trump’s strange affair with Putin and Xi leaves allies out in the cold
The direct dealings between the American and Russian presidents in deciding Europe’s eastern front have the whiff of Yalta in 1945.
Anti-Jewish attitudes are ‘baked into the Western inheritance’
Many of us are advocates for much of what the West has brought to the world, but the portion of its foundations that are anti-Jewish and antisemitic have to be removed and replaced, warns Rabbi Benjamin Elton.
Three questions about higher defence spending
If the Defence Department is to receive more taxpayer money, it should not be treated as a sacred cow.
Trump’s MAGA dreams conjure a world nightmare
Donald Trump values his relationship with dictators far more than that with democratic allies, making the global economic and national security interests a combustible mix.
Australia’s allies must step up in the Indo-Pacific
Readers’ letters on dealing with Donald Trump’s isolationism, looking to Congress for tariff relief, Rio’s clean energy move, Peter Dutton’s track record, and a CANZUK alliance.
PM to join world leaders’ talks on Ukraine peacekeepers
Anthony Albanese will take part in a hook-up of dozens of world leaders to discuss ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
What I learnt about the future of war in Ukraine this week
The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, perhaps the best-known military intelligence leader in the world, has three lessons from this war.
Australia should take a leaf out of China playbook to handle Trump
Instead of dealing with Washington alone, the new administration should be dealt with as a collective challenge together with our partners and allies.
Greenland election shows it’s global capitalism coming to the rescue
In a political climate that has looked to the far right, it is not the progressive voice that is being sought to counter that.
Khaki election: Trump’s ‘Mean Girls’ diplomacy prompts defence rethink
This week on The Fin podcast, Andrew Tillett and James Curran on how Donald Trump has disrupted the world order.
Speaking truth to Trump not as easy as Turnbull says
Australia’s leaders simply cannot ignore the possible implications for the US alliance when crafting their public rhetoric about the serving commander-in-chief.