SYDNEY - Australia is key to the core of the United States' Asia-Pacific pivot as each country has the other's back, visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said as he ends his visit here on Wednesday.
Biden has been on a four-day public relations tour of Australia in a bid to boost its presence in the mind of locals.
In an address hosted by think-tanks in Sydney on Wednesday, Biden played to the nostalgic heart strings of a century of linkages in a bid to get a tired Australian public back on side following a series of pessimistic local commentaries towards their Asia pivot.
"The partnership between Australia and America is at the core of our vision for the region's future," Biden told the audience which included three former Australian prime ministers Tony Abbott,  John Howard and Bob Hawke.
"Here in the early years of what's truly going to be the Pacific century, it's critical America and Australia look to one another for mutual support... because together, I am absolutely confident we can write a better future for all our children, and for this whole region." (Xinhua)