Doubling Down on Asia Victor D. Cha, Power Play: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia (Princeton University Press, 2016). Michael R. Auslin, The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation and Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region (Yale University Press, 2017).

• Main Author: NGOEI, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing)
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Cold War; Southeast Asia; East Asia; United States; Korean War; Asian Financial Crisis; Asian Century; Asian Studies; International and Area Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3219; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4476/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S003043871730114X_main.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

With the Chinese government aggressively militarizing the South China Sea and U.S. President Donald Trump scuttling the Trans-Pacific Partnership, there appears no clear answer to Beijing’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative. In fact, U.S. foreign policy thinkers are casting about for a strategy in Asia. What is to be done? Victor Cha’s Power Play and Michael Auslin’s End of the Asian Century recommends that the United States “double-down,” an expression Cha uses repeatedly, on its time-tested strategy of containing Chinese power in Asia.