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Elon Musk, US President-elect Donald Trump, Donald Trump jnr, Mike Johnson and Robert F Kennedy jnr eat McDonald’s food aboard Trump’s private plane.

We’ll know Trump’s tariff war is serious when he hits Big Macs

Despite the worries about Trump’s tariffs on Australian steel and aluminium, the real concern is if he widens his trade war to burgers.

  • Shane Wright

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White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro (centre).

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
Then prime minister Scott Morrison and US President Donald Trump had a good rapport as “surprise” election winners.

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
Donald Trump signs executive order as Rupert Murdoch looks on in White House.

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
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018.

Have sanctions hurt Putin’s war machine? It’s not that simple

As US President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, questions about the effectiveness of sanctions on Russia and their future will come under renewed scrutiny.

  • Patricia Cohen
Trump’s tough tariff talk could translate into a trade own goal.

Trump is about to shoot himself in the foot with his favourite weapon

If the president-elect proceeds with tariffs on the United States’ three biggest trade partners, it would damage the US economy.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Hedge fund investor Scott Bessent, Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary pick, made a late conversion to MAGA ideology.

The billionaire Wall Street is trusting to keep Trump on a tight leash

Wall Street has cheered the appointment of Scott Bessent, backing him to rein in Trump’s craziest ideas. That’s a big ask.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The ship at the centre of an emerging diplomatic muddle, the Brahman Express.

More than 150 cattle died on a ship from Darwin. It could result in a diplomatic debacle

Was the true death figure kept secret from the Indonesians? Neither the Australian government nor shipping company will say.

  • Zach Hope
Australian Rare honey which is available at Harrods in London for more than $1000 a jar.

Why wealthy Londoners are paying $1400 for a jar of Australian honey

Billed as a new and healthier alternative of fine wine, the three varieties of Australian Rare are produced in Western Australia’s famed south-west ecoregion.

  • Rob Harris
Yang Hengjun has been detained in China since January 2019.

China says it’s ‘worthy of trust’ but detentions and a death penalty are spooking businesses

Human rights groups estimate there are 5000 foreigners in Chinese jails. At least 50 of them are Australian, including Australian man Yang Hengjun.

  • Eryk Bagshaw

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