Via Peter Hartcher today:
Australia, you didn’t know it, but you’ve been at the very forefront of Donald Trump’s project. “I think Australia is in a fight for the ages” that will decide whether the nations of the West can keep their sovereignty against Chinese intrusion, says Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, now a coach and adviser to populist movements worldwide.
“Australia is at the forefront of the geopolitical contest of our time,” he tells me in his first interview with an Australian media outlet. He goes so far as to say that “what’s playing out in Australia is more important than what’s happening in the US and other places”.