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Some leaders and policy makers across the region and especially in Canberra are looking forward to a Republican presidential candidate, like Jeb Bush, despite the misadventures of his brother. Others think Clinton's nomination, perhaps next week, cannot come soon enough.
"The rebalance is Clinton's signal foreign policy achievement as Secretary of State, she's invested in it," says Michael Fullilove, executive director of the Lowy Institute. Later this month Fullilove will debate with the point man at the State Department, Danny Russell, and argue that leaders in Asia will not take the post-Clinton pivot seriously until Obama makes the case for it at home.
But the talk of flagging administration leadership and American decline raises an intriguing question: in the contest with China for regional pulling power, why is the United States still winning hands down?
Asia pivots towards the US as China bears down
