Publisher's Synopsis
The importance of East Asia in international politics is continually growing with US trade across the Pacific now exceeding their trade across the Atlantic. This book examines current US foreign policy in East Asia, surveys current problems and US relations with each of the major powers in the region and makes recommendations concerning how it might be improved. It argues that, although the region is at present a "good" environment for the USA, forces which adversely affect the USA are already at work. These include the growing economic power of countries in the region which may grow hostile if the USA continues to appear protectionist; and also America's own slowness to respond to changes in mood in the region, such as the anti-nuclear moves in Australia and New Zealand.
