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Days after the midterms, Anthony Albanese will have a chance to meet with Trump as he picks up the pieces | Tom McIlroy

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Between Cop31 in Antalya and a visit to China, the prime minister is expected to sit around a table with the leaders of the US, India and Japan Just a few weeks ago, Anthony Albanese and his closest advisers thought the possibility of a meeting of the Quad leaders taking place before the end of the year was remote in the extreme. Officially titled the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, the group includes Albanese, Donald Trump, India’s Narendra Modi and Japan’s Sanae Takaichi.

In theory, the Quad leaders meet annually. Last year, a blow-up between the hot-headed US president and the hardliner Modi stalled momentum. Talks due to take place in India were quietly cancelled. The 2023 summit was also put off at short notice, as Joe Biden faced a debt ceiling crisis in Washington.

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