We all know Australian foreign policy will be completely beholden to the reactionary anti-China brigade if the Coalition is elected at the next election. But if the ALP gets back in, a key challenge of the Trump 2.0 era will be making sure America's useful idiots don't dominate the policy debate like they did during Trump 1.0. Decoupling is not an Australian interest (it's not even a US interest, but lets put that aside).