It will be a test to see which countries are the nimblest when it comes to responding to changing economic paradigmsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLike the child who realises that her parents were joking when they said she was their favourite, people all around the world are coming to the life-changing realisation that their nation’s relationship with the United States was not really “special”.Not Australia, or Canada, or Britain, or France, or Germany, or Japan or the scores of others that for decades believed that they had a unique, protective and lucrative relationship with the “most powerful country ever in recorded history”. Continue reading... ...read more read less