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Sky News AU
a day ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Albanese securing Trump meeting shows pro-US leadership: Joe Hildebrand
Sky News contributor Joe Hildebrand discusses Prime Minister Anthony Albanese securing a meeting with US President Donald Trump at the upcoming G7 Summit. 'I think it's great that he's got a formal meeting with him, I reckon that will come out with a deal,' Mr Hildebrand said. 'It's just another example of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese being a pragmatic, centrist, pro-United States, patriotic Prime Minister of Australia.'
Japan Times
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Japan Times
Placating China won't prevent it from invading Taiwan
A survey from last November found that 34.7% of Taiwanese believed that being pro-United States would provoke China to invade Taiwan. Although the number decreased by 6.5 points from 2023, these figures are alarming. They show that many Taiwanese people are misreading the conditions under which China would launch a major invasion, misperceiving the enemy as an irrational actor that defies realist logic. There is no reason to believe that China would invade when the costs, namely the likelihood of a U.S. intervention, are high. This misperception poses significant risks to Taiwan's deterrence against a Chinese invasion.
