Biden’s Asia policy will be controversial – and that’s a good thing

On economic interdependence, China, Taiwan and North Korea, there is no way to avoid controversy while serving US interests

But the inability to please everyone also frees Biden from the straitjacket of historical expectations

Van Jackson

Published: 8:45am, 25 Jan, 2021

Updated: 11:33am, 18 Feb, 2021

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Van Jackson is an American professor of international relations at Victoria University of Wellington and a distinguished fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. From 2009 to 2014, he served as a strategist and policy adviser in the Office of the US Secretary of Defence.

Biden’s Asia policy will be controversial – and that’s a good thing

On economic interdependence, China, Taiwan and North Korea, there is no way to avoid controversy while serving US interests But the inability to please everyone also frees Biden from the straitjacket of historical expectations

On economic interdependence, China, Taiwan and North Korea, there is no way to avoid controversy while serving US interests

But the inability to please everyone also frees Biden from the straitjacket of historical expectations