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Post-9/11 world brings its own challenges

America won the war to contain Islamist terrorism. Now it must manage peaceful coexistence with China.

Nobody who watched the live apocalypse of airliners hurtling into the World Trade Centre on a sunny day 20 years ago can forget it. Or the fortitude of the victims, or the heroism of first responders as Americans pulled together.

Then prime minister John Howard, sensing the mood first-hand in Washington, invoked the ANZUS Treaty in mutual defence of both nations.

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