If Anthony Albanese can be faulted, it is the government’s erosion of Australian sovereignty by its blind extension of the American military footprint on our continent.
In February this column remarked upon the astonishing submission to President Donald Trump’s will in the United States and elsewhere: the capitulation of those in the firing line to his whims and ways.
NATO Chief Mark Rutte’s string of obsequious text messages to the US president at the recent summit in The Hague were but the latest exemplar of a new species in global diplomacy: the Trump toady.
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This article originally stated that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visited Beijing before Washington.
James Curran is professor of modern history at Sydney University.
