What do you think happens when you try to manage a narcissist with a narcissist?
Both pretend the other does not exist. AFR.
Leavitt said of the country’s 18 largest trading partners, two-thirds had a deal.
Australia is among the huge majority of countries that have not yet struck a deal and is facing the prospect of a higher-than-expected baseline tariff. The minimum rate of 10 per cent, first proposed in April, would be lifted to 15 or 20 per cent, Trump warned on Monday this week.
The UK has a 10% baseline deal with Trump. Why are we frozen out and awaiting to hear our fate on Truth Social?
Because that’s what happens when you send a Sinophile to piss off the White House instead of somebody who can prosecute our national case.
That’s what happens when you go on propaganda tours of China while the US relationship sours.
That’s what happens when you refuse to pull your weight on defence spending to placate Beijing.
This is not an independent foreign policy. It is this. AFR.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stepped in to stare down union and grassroots dissent over the $368 billion tripartite pact at the party’s national conference two years ago, but Victorian Labor members are preparing to introduce motions on Saturday critical of AUKUS and calling on the federal government to withdraw from the pact.
The Socialist Left have the numbers on the floor of the state conference, but key Left powerbrokers, in an attempt to avoid embarrassing the federal government, are working behind the scenes to rework the motion, which describes United States President Donald Trump as a “clear and present danger” to peace and security leading an “unstable” administration.
“Conference resolves that we call on the Commonwealth government to review and withdraw from the AUKUS partnership,” the motion currently states.
How is Trump a clear and present danger to peace when he refuses to fight internationalist wars?
This is Victoria disease overtaking foreign policy. A fattened Labor caucus stupefied by its success, seeking to remake the nation in its image; a helpless loser ready for a CCP takeover.
The 5-10% Rudd tariff is the least of our worries.
