When the razzle dazzle of the prime minister’s first face-to-face meeting with the mercurial US president is forgotten and the huge sigh of relief that nothing went wrong subsides, questions will be asked about what all the puffery achieved.
Trump gave a vacuous sounding endorsement of AUKUS, but did nothing for Australia on tariffs, despite the US running a continuous trade surplus with Australia and the infinitesimal amount of revenue the Australian tariff raises.
Trump turns the tables on Taiwan