John Kerry: an able performer in a tough role
America’s newly minted top diplomat hasn’t yet finished his nine-country, 11-day swing through Europe and the Middle East, his first overseas trip as secretary of state, but the first tough reviews are...
View ArticleAmerica must be responsible in its pivot to Asia
There is a caricature of America’s “pivot” to Asia and it goes something like this: the Middle East and south Asia are the graveyard of US power and prestige and Washington must cut its losses to these...
View ArticleAsia enters an age of increasing uncertainty
Long regarded as a region of unbounded promise and rising prosperity, Asia has been sometimes the lone bright spot on a global balance sheet that featured turmoil in the Middle East, torpor in Europe...
View ArticleIs this the freeze in America’s Asia pivot?
There has been considerable commentary of late questioning the seriousness and sustainability of the so-called American pivot or rebalance to Asia. Mush of this breathless handwringing is overwrought,...
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