USA or China: is Australia backing the wrong horse?

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The visit of United States President Barack Obama not only raised debate about China’s rising regional power, but also about how Australia should deal with it.

If Australia is ‘caught in the crossfire’ of China and the US, should it be protecting itself, or relying ever more on its alliance with American military might? And is that alliance worth persisting with with in a rapidly changing Asia-Pacific region anyway?

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