"He would trash basically the structure of alliance relationships and trade relationships in our immediate region," Beazley told ABC radio. That's the warning from Australia's former ambassador to Washington Kim Beazley who believes America would be a different place after a term of Donald Trump in the White House. The one-time Defence Minister said Australia did not have the "the capacity to readily survive an uncoupling of our bilateral defence relationship with our national security intact". By Lisa MartinA Trump presidency won't be a question of hold onto your hats for four years and then sanity will rule. "We can't afford to see our region, including relations with China, fall victim to ill-considered confrontations," Beazley wrote in a commentary posted on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's website.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 09, 2016 23:15 UTC