He has been compared in the British press to George W. Bush. He was once described by the US ambassador to Australia in a cable to Washington as ‘a polarising right-winger’. He endeared himself to US Republicans by describing the Obama administration as ‘the most left-of-centre government in at least half a century’.
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Sam Roggeveen is editor of Australia’s leading foreign policy forum, The Interpreter (lowyinterpreter.org)
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