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Are Trumpians or Boltonians in charge?
The US alliance is the great totem of Australia's foreign policy, before which our major parties kneel. But they should look up once in a while, lest the tectonic plates shift again and the totem topples.
Sam RoggeveenContributorWhen Prime Minister Scott Morrison steps off his plane in Washington next week, he will almost be able to feel the tectonic plates of global affairs shifting beneath his feet.
The departure of National Security Adviser John Bolton this week will still be triggering aftershocks. Presidential advisers come and go, but Bolton represents something larger about America and the kind of power it is becoming.
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