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Obama’s Pivot in the Trump Era

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Oct 30, 2017
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In 2011, President Barack Obama gave a landmark speech in Canberra that announced the US would “pivot” its focus to Asia in a bid to establish an enduring framework for engagement. In doing so the President sought to make a clear declaration that America’s future lay in Asia, and to close the book on a turbulent decade of war across the Middle East in A…

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