Politico EU: How to handle these two great powers? Albanese wanted another view beyond what the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet was sending to his office. The need became more acute as the second Trump administration, which was applying the blow torch to its European allies to increase defense spending, put pressure on Australia to do the same with respect to China.
Keating bristled, telling Albanese privately that he was now “sitting between two sharks,” those being “the China threat brigade on the one hand and the Americans on the other.”…