America Is Sitting on a Powder Keg of Unresolved Problems, but Australia Can’t Afford To Be Smug

[T]here is only one word to describe this first visit by the new German government leader with the U.S. president: depressing. In every respect.

Not only does [Trump] want to transform the Republican Party, he wants to use the opportunity of being in power to transform all of American society.

Submitting foreign students and researchers to this scrutiny opens the door to establishing dangerous ideological control.

[T]his is an act of self-destruction that will damage ... a superpower that has brought together the world's best minds.

[R]efusing entry visas to 'censors' in Europe, aimed at social network regulators, amounts to sanctions against the EU.

In the end, we are all going to feel the headwinds.

So the world needs to brace itself for more confusion and unpredictability in U.S. trade policy.