Obama's visit: time to reassess our relationship with the United States

President Obama's visit to Australia provides us with a good opportunity to assess how the relationship between our two countries has developed over the years.

It is also an appropriate time to pause and consider how that relationship is starting to become more complex as China asserts itself as our most important trading partner and the key to our future prosperity.

Presidential visits are rare and exciting events for Australians. I suspect that the attendant [...]