article_snippet: Barack Obama's arrival in the White House now looks like a watershed for bilateral relations.
article_snippet: Unlike many of his post-war predecessors, Barack Obama's was no Anglophile.
article_snippet: Looking the other way, to Asia, Barack Obama's saw opportunities and threats of far greater moment, centered on rising powers such as China and India -- hence his subsequent "tilt" to Asia.
article_snippet: All this matters more than ever because, amid the developing disorder of the post-Cold War world, old certainties are being uprooted and new or revived threats are multiplying.
article_snippet: The aggressive behavior of Vladimir Putin's Russia is one obvious example.
article_snippet: Another is the rise of international terrorism, most recently in the form of ISIS, also known as the Islamic State.
article_snippet: Another is China's hegemonic ambitions in the East China and South China seas, at the expense of neighbors such as Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam.
article_snippet: Indeed, as some see it, there is far too much British kow-towing to China.