dictator looks like voice of reason compared to Trump admin. Hysterical.

If he doesn't destroy the whole US legal apparatus that would hold him accountable first. He appears to trying to install his own family dynasty at the moment.

What matters is the other country's economy, global leadership role, the personality and ethics of the leader.

True, dictatorship is as bad as it gets. But the U S does business gladly with China, and courts it for certain things. That China has a dictatorship doesn't enter into it, except when it comes to human rights issues. Which is different from becoming allies with another country for a specific purpose, trading with it, entering into treaties, etc.

It seems to be a communist govt, with a structure of legislative bodies and a President, all of whom pledge allegiance to the Communist Party.

I didn't read the whole article, but it doesn't seem to describe a dictatorship.

I don't think many on DU would question Gareth Evans' comments about Trump, but Australian conservative leaders in particular, even Anglophiles like Abbott, have a bad habit of going along with ill-judged forays of the U.S. into foreign wars.

Labor leaders are rather less into forelock-tugging than their Lib counterparts, but voters of all persuasions are often unhappy at seeing us dragged into messy, protracted overseas wars that generally end up going nowhere and proving nothing.

And when the U.S. President is a man of demonstrable ignorance and poor judgment, it's horrifying to see our ridiculous PM jump up and start echoing him. I remember Vietnam all too well - it was my friends who were being called up - and none of us (except the Liberal Party) have forgotten the huge outcry against going into Iraq. Yet Malcolm Turncoat seems to have forgotten this in his desperate eagerness to be accepted by Trump.

Some people never learn.

when he visited the Trumpster only to find out that he would have to wait another 3 hours and then have his "one on one" reduced to half an hour. The excuse being that Trump needed to stay back in DC to celebrate the passing of the bill through the house to take healthcare away from approx. 24million people. The really sad thing was seeing Turnbull congratulating him for doing it.

But Turnbull's chosen to play the toady, so he deserves whatever he gets.

I don't doubt he'll drag us into another US war before long.