The key test of the Australia-US alliance under the presidency of Donald Trump will be his approach to Asia.
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Robert Garran is author of True Believer: John Howard, George Bush and the American alliance, and two other books on international affairs. He has been foreign policy adviser to the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, head of North Asia assessments for Australia’s Defence Intelligence Organisation, and a journalist writing on foreign affairs, economics and politics for leading newspapers.