A Vision of Asia
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In a quiet and unassuming way, seven years of the Bush administration has left Asia in fairly good shape. Relations with China and Japan are strong. There is a multilateral process in place to denuclearize North Korea. Engagement with ASEAN countries has been deep. The United States is still viewed as the region’s key provider of the public good. Academics who wrote about Asia as a “cauldron of conflict” after the Cold War predicted the complete obverse of this outcome. Bush-bashers will never give the administration credit, nor even acknowledge that there was a conscious strategy in place. But few would be willing to trade the current situation in Asia for any other period in recent history. Asia will be the fastest growing and most dynamic region of the world for generations to come. America is and will remain a Pacific nation drawn by trade, values, and history to be a part of the region’s bright future. It will be incumbent on a new administration, Democrat or Republican, to keep Asia on an even keel by building on the accomplishments of the past seven years.
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In a quiet and unassuming way, seven years of the Bush administration has left Asia in fairly good shape. Relations with China and Japan are strong. There is a multilateral process in place to denuclearize North Korea. Engagement with ASEAN countries has been deep. The United States is still viewed as the region’s key provider of the public good. Academics who wrote about Asia as a “cauldron of conflict” after the Cold War predicted the complete obverse of this outcome. Bush-bashers will never give the administration credit, nor even acknowledge that there was a conscious strategy in place. But few would be willing to trade the current situation in Asia for any other period in recent history. Asia will be the fastest growing and most dynamic region of the world for generations to come. America is and will remain a Pacific nation drawn by trade, values, and history to be a part of the region’s bright future. It will be incumbent on a new administration, Democrat or Republican, to keep Asia on an even keel by building on the accomplishments of the past seven years.