Dr Alan Dupont presented in Panel 4 at Sovereign and Security Forum on Monday 31st March, 2025.
How can Australia pursue its national interest in a “might is right” world? Can we save the multilateral furniture? Can we work with other countries to mitigate the economic damage from Trump’s tariff war? Is CPTPP a model for the future?
I believe the Trump ascendancy presages a radical change in Washington’s approach to the US alliance.
Mutual trust, shared interests and values have little or diminished weight. Trump, the dealmaker, doesn’t distinguish between friends and foes. This means the major beneficiaries of his second coming are more likely to be autocratic challengers, who have no love for America, at the expense of traditional friends and allies, who are being treated with disdain.
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