Australia is one of America's closest allies; There are two countries fought next to Each other in every major conflict since World War I. Jake Sullivan, former President Joe Biden's National Security Counselor, gossip In January, the two of the two “strategic marriage” was already entered.
Recently, they feel like a spouse who wakes up a morning to find a fully stranger sitting next to Australians. Many, Mind, President Trump, How did Cavalierly treat other long-term allies such as Canada and Europe, how he looked at other long-term allies threatening Cavalierly's economies and other long-term allies and glory About the obligation to protect US members of NATO.
Australia itself has been hit by 10 percent on exports this week, compared to 25 percent tariffs in steel and aluminum. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday gossip The actions “will give results for Australians to see this connection.”
All this can make the Chinese growing military attitude by building a severe military relationship with the United States and a dependent military relationship with the United States feel in the region – and ask if he needed “B Plan B”
“We are in a very different American,” Malcolm Turnbull, former conservative Prime Minister, said in an interview. “Our values are already busy with an American who is not aligned with us.”
As a nation of 27 million a nation, a geographical expansion, strong partner to the protection of the United States, Australia, then relied on the strongest partner of the United States after the United States.
In recent years, Australia has become an integral part of the US military position in the region, China's growing stubbornness. The United States has returned from the dock in the west of US submarines, Australia, US submarines, and the government signed in 2021 Deal with Washington and LondonTo equip the Australia with submarines that are nuclearly employed in the future for decades.
But now, despite some of these regulations, Mr. Trump's “America“Station. Australia can trust the United States to help the United States in order to come to the United States, and if Australia does not agree with His idea, Australia will continue to stand in a military situation with the American ally?
“Indeed, we must reconsider our thinking to our thinking about the United States as a country,” he said. John McCarthy, previously Australia's ambassador to the United States.
Mr. Turnbull, who has a coincidence with part of Mr. Trump's first period, has collected a forum to discuss the US Union of the United States this week. According to him, he said he did it because he did not feel the change of Australian political parties and the problems against calls, instead of focusing on domestic issues and focusing on internal issues.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle said that Australia should work more to protect. Mr. Albanese's Labor government, 2.3 percent of the total domestic product in the next decade, there were opposition leader Peter Dutton, Investment About $ 1.9 billion in a squad of fighter jets.
AUKUS Deals for Australia's Long-Term Safety Plans, for nuclear submarines magician As an unprecedented partnership in connection with the shared of sensitive American nuclear technology.
According to the agreement, Australia first in response to the increase in Chinese military influence in the US Pacific, the United States will establish virginia-class submarines, as a result. The fuel-filled action with the nuclear will allow to hide longer distances without entering the surface.
However, since the date of signing, the United States can accelerate quickly to transfer US submarines, and the questions that it will be in conflicts, which covers the United States, as well as Taiwan, has faced questions in Australia.
Trump management has strengthened skepticism with the variability and allies.
“The Donald Trump is a favor by clarifying our determinaries that we do not know ourselves to us.”
However, the country's politicians have not made the resources to be redirected to the public, as soon as possible.
As a result, Australia can be a lot to win from the Union and said he needed the balance of power in the region.
Australia's ambassador to Washington, Dennis Richardson, Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Defense, said that Mr. Turnbull said.
“I don't think we have to spend time on the Plan B,” he said, referring to the Aukus deal. “The worst thing we can do at this point would be the worst thing to change horses.”