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Chinese Xi Jinping arrives in Hanoi on Monday as part of a five-day tour of South East Asia.

Xi’s neighbourly charm offensive touches a raw nerve for Trump

Donald Trump has already hit out at Xi Jinping’s visit to Vietnam, accusing the two sides of “trying to figure out, ‘How do we screw the United States of America?’ ”

  • Lisa Visentin

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We have hard data on how the US president is reshaping the Australian election.

We thought Trump was dragging down Peter Dutton. Now we know why

We now have hard data on how the US president is reshaping the Australian election.

  • David Crowe

Trump’s gut tells him he’s got China on the ropes. He couldn’t be more wrong

Donald Trump believes his tariff folly will isolate its superpower adversary. But it will be the US, not China, that could find itself outside the tent.

  • Peter Hartcher
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The duopoly is dying, long live the minority

Readers argue that changing the system means the decline of the two main parties’ power and the rise of independents in federal government.

Donald Trump’s tariff policies have sent markets on a rollercoaster ride.

Trump’s boosters laud his tariff flip-flop but consumers are not buying it

Every time the president changes direction on tariffs, his lieutenants insist he is following a grand plan. Americans know better.

  • Michael Koziol
Christopher Pyne tours the HMAS Collins submarine when he was Defence Minister in 2018.

Trump uncertainty not biggest threat to $368 billion AUKUS pact, Pyne says

The former defence minister turned lobbyist is confident the $368 billion deal will come to fruition, but admits US support under Trump is “qualified”.

  • Michael Koziol
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An ALP or LNP win hastens burning planet

Readers can’t understand why the two major parties have so little to say about the climate crisis in this election.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference on nationalising British Steel.

‘National security on the line’: Starmer pulls off extraordinary move to save British steel

The UK parliament was recalled for just the fifth time since WWII to vote on emergency legislation, and passed the bill in less than 24 hours.

  • Rob Harris
Omani security personnel watch a convoy believed to be carrying US envoy Steve Witkoff in Muscat, Oman, on Saturday.

The brief moment that marked a win for Trump’s high-stakes talks with Iran

Trump’s man was in one room. Khamenei’s was in another. Then the two-hour mark ticked over.

  • Susannah George
Poland’s Radek Sikorski

Ex-war reporter turned foreign minister leading the charge to keep Russia – and China – in check

At a time when Europe’s leadership has been diffuse and distracted, Radek Sikorski has emerged as one of the West’s most forceful voices.

  • Rob Harris

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