{"id":32776,"date":"2025-09-23T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/32776\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:43:10","slug":"allies-like-these-capital-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/32776\/","title":{"rendered":"Allies like these \u2014 Capital Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last few days have demonstrated that the centre of Donald Trump\u2019s politics is less policy than personal patronage \u2014 who is in the room, and who isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Overnight, it was confirmed that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese isn\u2019t getting a meeting with the US president in New York this week. As Finn McHugh and Jennifer Duke wrote in today\u2019s Political Capital<\/a>, it\u2019s more evidence of Trumpworld\u2019s general ambivalence towards the Albanese government.<\/p>\n

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Response to the Albo snub has predictably split along partisan lines, with the Coalition seeing it as evidence that the US-Australia relationship has totally collapsed, and Labor pushing the claim<\/a> it proves the alliance is so robust that it doesn\u2019t even need a check-in.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to overegg the importance of a missed connection in Manhattan. But it\u2019s also true that with AUKUS looking fragile and seemingly not very high on Trump\u2019s list of often idiosyncratic priorities, any chance for Australia to make its case face-to-face is clearly valuable. (One assumes there\u2019s a paragraph about this somewhere in The Art of the Deal.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last few days have demonstrated that the centre of Donald Trump\u2019s politics is less policy than personal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27633,24702,42,43,27634,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-32776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australian-politics","tag-geopolitics","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-the-edition","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}