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    Washington can be a prickly and insecure great power ally

    The Russell-Zoellick correspondence reveals an Australian government not afraid to talk truth to American power, an art largely lost over recent years.

    James Curran
    James CurranInternational editor

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    The imperative of loyalty and the prospect of betrayal have long been the axes around which Australian foreign policy revolves.

    But in the early 1990s some in Washington felt Australia was betraying the US by pursuing its economic interests in Asia.

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