Inviting the leaders of South-east Asia for the first time to an Asean-Australia Special Summit in Australia marks an important shift in Canberra's thinking about how to manage its many foreign policy challenges.
It shows that Canberra is starting at last to think about what it should do as it becomes increasingly clear America will not remain Asia's dominant power for long, and US power and influence wanes.
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