the bullet proof manager home leadership program 2012

The Trump years highlighted the concern of US allies in Asia of abandonment by their security guarantor. All of Asia’s economies are deeply interdependent with China interdependence is the source of Asia’s prosperity, including that of China and it’s no one-way street. It ‘threaten to undermine the sustainability of American leadership in the world’ by ‘crowding out efforts to revitalise an inclusive international system that would protect US interests and values even as global power shifts and evolves’.Īn obsession with exhaustively countering China also obscures Washington’s view of the interests its key partners in the Asia Pacific have in the de-escalation of US–China tensions, an issue that Iain Henry highlights in our lead article this week. But as Jessica Chen Weiss has argued, the current trend towards treating every arena of US–China relations as the site of a zero-sum struggle for dominance will ultimately damage US national interests.

Some competition between these two great powers is inevitable, and even necessary.

Donald Trump fertilised the idea it continues to flourish under the Biden team. The political mood in Washington is simple: the United States has been too soft for too long and needs to pursue a thoroughgoing program of competition with China. How the United States makes the adjustment to whatever ‘new normal’ emerges in Asia over the coming years and decades is going to have impacts far beyond its shores. Even as debate rages about whether the writing’s on the wall for US strategic primacy in the region, there’s no likely future in which the United States doesn’t remain a major export market, a significant source of investment, ideas and popular culture and, for some, an important military partner, even in a more China-centric regional and global order. The United States’ economic and military power, and its global political leadership, were indispensable ingredients for economic development and strategic stability in East Asia in the decades following the Second World War. Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific

The bullet proof manager home leadership program 2012