Trump’s impulsive style isn’t making Albanese’s life – or Australia’s US alliance – any easier | Australian foreign policy

For a few hours at the start of this week, it looked like the defence minister, Richard Marles, would have a face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump before his boss, Anthony Albanese, would.

In the days leading up to the Nato summit in The Hague, Asian media outlets reported that the US president…