Trump diplomacy
- Analysis
- Trade
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ is a trillion-dollar promise that can’t all be true
As the event and its mixed messages about tariffs nears, the Donald Trump’s White House appears to have liberated itself from reality.
- Michael Koziol
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- Opinion
- Australia votes
Australians are clear on our biggest threats. But our leaders don’t want to discuss it
Voters want to know what the contenders for the prime ministership will do to protect the national interest. Neither Albanese nor Dutton so far have any answers for them.
- Peter Hartcher
- Exclusive
- Australia votes
Worse than Russia? Voters fear Trump’s America
Former ambassadors and Defence officials warned on Monday that Australia should shift to a stronger form of self-defence in case the US retreated from the ANZUS alliance.
- David Crowe
- Analysis
- Myanmar coup
Quake disaster has exposed a Trump-sized void on the world stage. China is stepping in
The US has not been perfect in its application of soft power over the years, but diplomacy and aid are preferable to war and weapons.
- Michael Ruffles
China and Russia already have boots on the ground in Myanmar. The US is nowhere to be seen
The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has so far sent nothing to the earthquake disaster zone.
- Hannah Beech and Edward Wong
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Hillary Clinton on Trump’s ‘dumb power’: it’s feeble, friendless, stupid and lethal
The blundering Signal chat may be the least of the Trump administration’s dangerous moves. As a former senior spy put it, “we’re shooting ourselves in the head, not the foot”.
- Hillary Clinton
‘Should I fire him?’ Inside Trump’s deliberations after Signal debacle
For much of this past week, the US president was consumed by a single question. What should he do about national security adviser Michael Waltz?
- Maggie Haberman and Tyler Pager
- Opinion
- US politics
Sure, Trump’s stooges messaged their secret war plans to the world, but who hasn’t done something similar?
Haven’t we all written something nasty about someone, and accidentally texted it to them, or shared top level national secrets with an investigative journalist?
- Elsie Flanagan-O'Neill
- Explainer
- Trump's White House
‘The outsiders’: Who’s who in Trump’s new White House
Some are predictable picks for their roles, most are not. Meet the people you’ll be seeing a lot in the next three years.
- Angus Holland
Vance attacks Denmark in ‘aggressive’ visit to Greenland
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.
- Benedict Smith
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