#…Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU. He teaches courses on international negotiation and Middle Eastern studies..#

Lock him/ her up in the clown wing at Guantanamo bay, and throw away the key.FM! I can’t cope with this idiot.

Not true, Trump hasn't "closed the door" to immigration. Net migration was officially measured at 1.3m in 2024-25, well down from 2023-24, but still an appreciable 0.3% of US population, higher than other world powers.

Biden and his "border czar" Harris deliberately failed to enforce US immigration laws. Voters didn't want that, now Trump's re-regulating. What you might call "democracy", eh? Except that, in the US as in AU, the educated "left" doesn't think unwashed voters should get a say over immigration rates. Student-radical Albanese is running immigration at much more than 1% of AU population, just because he can.

Not interested in countries over whose politics Australians have no control. But I'm sick of this 'migrants made this country' nonsense. Yes the first migrants, the settlers who did all the hard work to upgrade the new world, did that. But not the current crowd who are bludging on the original settler generation, and gradually turning the new world back into the old world.

No.
EXPLOITING immigrants AND other countries is the backbone of America's capitalist greed, starting with killing the Indians and black slavery.

It's ironic, Americans love these great big fuel guzzling trucks, but you're all writing cheques your country can no longer cash.

You country has effectively ran out of road.

As of early 2026, the U.S. is pushing China to shift its economic model from export-driven growth to domestic consumption, driven by a need to rebalance a global economy where China holds a massive trade surplus.

The U.S. wants to reduce it's trade deficit decreasing the reliance on Chinese goods and to potentially export more U.S. goods to a wealthier Chinese middle class.
They complain about China's subsidies and industrial overcapacity that they say hurts international competitors.

Basically, America doesn't like that it cannot compete.

But they exported all the jobs, because of greed.
The result is called 'karma'.

Greed was good remember?
Take your medicine.

China nor the rest of the world doesn't need anything from you.
We down under live in a location where this was apparent years ago.
You're only just now getting the memo.

Take your shiddy service economy based on Microsoft, Netflix and Spotify subscriptions and leave us all alone.
- Beyond that you produce little than can't be gotten elsewhere cheaper.
Even your weapons are now far overpriced, not up to the task and can't be produced in sufficient quantities to do anything more than bankrupt nations that buy hem, they certainly won't win any wars with them.

Stop exploiting the illegal aliens for cheap labour, stop robbing other nations oil and facilitating genocide, and claiming that your an exceptional nation.

America didn't even advance to the metric system.

Chinese goods are now good enough quality.
I don't want any of your overpriced, tariff added goods.
America wants the whole entire world to pay more, because it's losing.

1859 - we need slaves. Without the slaves, who'll pick the cotton.
2026 -we need illegals. Without illegals, who'll pick the oranges.