Foreign relations
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Trump diplomacy
We need to become agile to avoid Trump’s road rage
Increasingly it feels as if we are living in a new age of the endlessly furious.
- Tony Wright
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Trump tariff warrior says Australian ‘China-owned’ companies are flooding US market. It’s not true
A top adviser to the US president has launched an extraordinary attack on Australian aluminium exporters, making a claim rejected by independent economists – and US trade data.
- David Crowe and Michael Koziol
- Exclusive
- Trade
What did Australia promise? Inside the room where Trump and Morrison talked tariffs
Australian officials scrambled when they heard Trump was bringing some of his top trade advisers to dinner with Morrison. They knew the trade warriors had an axe to grind.
- David Crowe and Michael Koziol
- Analysis
- Trump diplomacy
Albanese’s formulas aren’t enough to handle a president like Trump
Being a close ally of the US does not mean we have to be so slavish that we abandon independent thinking.
- Matthew Knott
Dutton praises Trump as a ‘big thinker’ who wants peace, after president’s Gaza plan
Peter Dutton has praised Donald Trump for being willing to try a new approach to resolve the conflict, avoiding criticism of a plan that has shocked the region.
- Olivia Ireland and Josefine Ganko
- Updated
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
‘We will own it’: Trump wants the US to take over Gaza and redevelop it
The comments, made as he met with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, came after Trump earlier suggested displaced Palestinians be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory.
- Michael Koziol
- Updated
- US politics
Rupert Murdoch in Oval Office as Trump shakes up trade ties with Mexico, Canada
The US president paused tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports and praised the “legendary” media mogul even as he lashed Murdoch’s newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.
- Michael Koziol
- Analysis
- Trade
What are tariffs and how do they work?
Get the lowdown on who pays for them, what they protect and how countries may retaliate.
- Paul Wiseman
- Explainer
- Trump's White House
Tropic thunder: Why Trump wants the Panama Canal back
The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?
- Angus Holland and Jackson Graham
‘Proof of love’: After 24 years, a French diplomat is back in Melbourne
France is flying the flag for closer bilateral relations with newly appointed French consul-general Paule Ignatio.
- Cara Waters
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