A nation must think before it acts.
Michael Auslin is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and was a professor of Japanese history at Yale University. He is the author of Asia’s New Geopolitics: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific In the 21st Century (Hoover Institution Press) and The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region (Yale University Press, 2017). He writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, The Spectator, and Foreign Policy, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.