Trade
‘Those with bigger fists should not be allowed to call the shots’: China takes aim at Trump
As the US president upends decades of foreign policy, China stepped forward on Friday to sell its own alternative to the US-led global world order.
- Lisa Visentin
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- China relations
China says it ‘will not flinch’ as it meets Trump’s new tariffs with its own
It took only minutes for Beijing to respond to the latest salvo in the US president’s global trade war.
- Lisa Visentin
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- Russia-Ukraine war
Trump pauses Ukraine military aid days after Zelensky meeting
A senior Ukrainian lawmaker said the US president’s aid freeze looked like he was trying to push Kyiv towards capitulation on Russia’s terms.
- Michael Koziol
‘Trump’s call’: Australia’s diplomatic assault over tariffs hits roadblock
Kevin Rudd put on a breakfast spread for Treasurer Jim Chalmers and his US counterpart in Washington. But the key decision-maker was missing.
- Michael Koziol
Trump aide’s fresh attack on tech taxes ahead of Australian trade summit
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is set to meet his US counterpart, Scott Bessent, along with the director of President Donald Trump’s National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, in Washington.
- Michael Koziol
Chalmers flies to Washington in latest bid to avoid Trump tariffs
The treasurer said he did not expect his one-on-one with Trump’s Treasury secretary to bring an end to negotiations.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
US had asked Australia to ship more aluminium, says Rio Tinto CEO
Jakob Stausholm has contradicted White House claims that Australia didn’t honour a promise to limit aluminium shipments to the US.
- Nick Toscano
Brawls, boos and boycotts: Trump resentment boils over in Canada
Three fights in the first nine seconds of a hotly anticipated USA-Canada hockey clash seemed to speak volumes about the state of relations between the two neighbours.
- Michael Koziol
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- Foreign relations
‘We will respond strongly’: Allies workshop how to talk back to Trump on tariffs
Canada’s visiting trade minister said Australia and Canada should forcefully argue the case for free trade as Donald Trump upends the global trading system.
- Matthew Knott
- Political sketch
- Trump diplomacy
Trump turns MPs into Yes Minister caricatures
Trade Minister Don Farrell is certain Australia is obeying the president’s trade diktats. Exactly how he couldn’t say.
- Nick Bonyhady
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