Beltway Confidential

Trump forgets Australia

By Tom Rogan
Published December 11, 2020 5:50am ET
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Trump forgets Australia
Scott Morrison, Australia's prime minister, right, speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump, center, as Mathias Cormann, Australia's finance minister, left, stands prior to a session at the Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Osaka, Japan, on Saturday, June 29, 2019. Disputes over wording on climate change and trade are unresolved shortly before Group of 20 leaders are due to release a communique from their summit in Japan, raising the risk of a very watered-down document or no statement at all. | (Kazuhiro Nogi/Bloomberg)

President Trump’s greatest legacy accomplishment will be his restructuring of the U.S. government to address communist China’s multigenerational challenge. But as he prepares to leave office, the president is neglecting one of his most important partners.

Australia.

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