{"id":4559,"date":"2018-07-12T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T22:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2018-07-12T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T01:44:39","slug":"an-australian-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/an-australian-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump-Kim summit and US bilateral relations in North East Asia: An Australian perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s disruptive impact on US alliance management was exemplified by two sets of public comments earlier in June 2018. The president\u2019s public condemnation of Justin Trudeau as \u201cvery dishonest and weak\u201d for pushing back against Washington\u2019s imposition of tariffs on Canadian goods\u00a0was followed by praise for North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong-un as \u201cvery smart and very talented.\u201d The latter comments were accompanied by a peremptory announcement by Trump that annual joint exercises with South Korea would be terminated because they were a \u201cprovocation\u201d to Pyongyang and cost the United States \u201ca lot of money.\u201d While it seems Beijing was aware of the impending announcement, US allies in Asia\u2014including Seoul\u2014were taken by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>A US president excoriating the leader of a fellow NATO member country while singing the praises of a totalitarian leader who has threatened nuclear strikes against US territory and several American allies left analysts reeling, but it underscored Trump\u2019s essential disregard of the conventional foreign policy playbook. As a long-standing US ally, Australia takes a keen interest in the Trump administration\u2019s conduct towards traditional allies and foes alike. If Canberra felt nervous about Trump\u2019s conduct earlier this month, the Turnbull government gave nothing away. Applauding Trump\u2019s \u201cvisionary leadership\u201d in meeting with Kim Jong-un, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull did not engage with the president\u2019s public condemnation of a counterpart Five-Eyes member.\u00a0Although some Australian officials are privately anxious about the Trump administration\u2019s cavalier approach to alliance management generally, they believe Australia can weather the storm because of its strong institutional connections with the United States. There is no evidence\u2014at least none yet\u2014that Australia\u2019s relations with the United States are deteriorating or that it is hedging against the alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to read the full &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasanforum.org\/an-australian-perspective\/\">An Australian perspective<\/a>&#8221; article published at The ASAN Forum National Commentaries, written by Griffith Asia Institute member, Professor Andrew O&#8217;Neil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s disruptive impact on US alliance management was exemplified by two sets of public comments earlier in June 2018. The president\u2019s public condemnation of Justin Trudeau as \u201cvery dishonest and weak\u201d for pushing back against Washington\u2019s imposition of tariffs on Canadian goods\u00a0was followed by praise for North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong-un as \u201cvery smart<a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/an-australian-perspective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;The Trump-Kim summit and US bilateral relations in North East Asia: An Australian perspective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,245],"tags":[720,577,557,475,596],"class_list":["post-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-series","category-china-and-north-east-asia","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-malcolm-turnbull","tag-professor-andrew-oneil","tag-xi-jinping"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Jill Moriarty","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Trump-Kim summit and US bilateral relations in North East Asia: An Australian perspective | Griffith Asia Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Donald Trump\u2019s disruptive impact on US alliance management was exemplified by two sets of public comments earlier in June 2018. 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