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Former Australian foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans has launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump and urged Australia to reduce its dependence on the US alliance and accept China as a legitimate "global rule maker".
Mr Evans labelled Mr Trump as "manifestly the most ill-informed, under-prepared, ethically challenged and psychologically ill-equipped president in US history".
The former senior member of the Hawke and Keating Labor governments also called on the government to put "more bucks" into defence spending, to be more self-reliant.
"Less United States does not mean walking away from the alliance, from which we, of course, profoundly benefit in terms of access to intelligence and high-end armaments," Mr Evans, now Australian National University chancellor, said in the speech to the National Press Club on Thursday.
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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-most-illinformed-underprepared-and-psychologically-illequipped-president-in-us-history-20170412-gvk1tf.html
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)every single person who voted for him.
Throck
(2,520 posts)canetoad
(17,168 posts)To clarify, Gareth Evans was Foreign Minister, not Prime Minister (PM).
UTUSN
(70,710 posts)[font size=5]"manifestly the most ill-informed, under-prepared, ethically challenged and psychologically ill-equipped president in US history". [/font]