America's neo-isolationism

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The Virtues of a Confrontational China Strategy
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A Japanese official criticizes aspects of the Trump Administration’s confrontational approach to China, but on balance finds it preferable in almost every way to Obama’s engagement and accommodation.

Trump vs. Biden: Who is better for Japan?

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BY KUNI MIYAKE

Obama was the first U.S. president since the 1930s who embodied neo-isolationism: an advanced version of traditional American isolationism. Trump’s “America first” slogan is just another derivative from this.

Confrontational approach to China: Emotionally satisfying, strategically shortsighted

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BY BRAD GLOSSERMAN

While he isn’t an isolationist or nationalist like Trump, Biden, like Obama, is skeptical of “forever wars,” seemingly endless foreign engagements. The U.S. isn’t turning its back on the world, but after reading Biden’s thinking in Foreign Affairs, Nakayama concludes that “one should no longer take for granted America’s forward-leaning global leadership.” The U.S. is not going back to the pre-Trump world.

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