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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Krishani Dhanji

Turnbull urges Albanese to acknowledge new global political reality under ‘bully’ Trump

The former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull says it must be acknowledged that the US president is a ‘bully’ who will only negotiate ‘when there is pushback’. Photograph: Hilary Wardhaugh/AAP

Anthony Albanese must acknowledge the world order has fundamentally shifted under “bully” Donald Trump instead of pretending nothing has changed globally, Malcolm Turnbull says.

Turnbull urged Albanese to offer the same clear-eyed analysis as his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney, who delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier this month warning that the US-led global order is enduring “a rupture”, not a transition.

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