Australia faces a more complex and dangerous world than at any time since the threat of Japanese invasion during the second world war.
The global economy is being scrambled by the Trump administration’s weaponisation of the trade regime, rising protectionism and efforts to reduce supply chain vulnerabilities. The United States has soured on old alliances, threatened takeovers of neighbours and withdrawn from global institutions.
And it’s just started another war in the Middle East that threatens to engulf the entire region.
