I think that the alliance has remained the bedrock of our strategic arrangements and that the alliance is beyond politics. What the Trump administration has done, however, is advocate on a range of issues, a position which we did not believe is in Australia’s interest.
We did not believe that the erosion of multilateral institutions, whether it’s the World Trade Organization or the World Health Organization, has been in Australia’s interests and we said so and we said that the government should say so. So that is one example. Obviously, another is on climate.
We believe that the Paris agreement, a multilateral agreement to confront the warming of the planet and the disastrous consequences for this generation and beyond – it’s in our interests for the world’s greatest power to be in that. And it is a great thing on the day that America actually withdrew from the Paris agreement, was election day, and now that will, once a Biden administration is sworn in, be reintroduced.