Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

Book release and talk back on geopolitical motivations and outcomes of the China-Pacific region in relation to the U.S.

Richard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning is an account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history wars and ruled by entrenched political dynasties, is threatening to upend the peace underwritten by Pax Americana since World War II. Combined with Donald Trump's disdain for America's old alliances and China's own regional ambitions, east Asia is entering a new era of instability and conflict. If the United States laid the postwar foundations for modern Asia, now the anchor of the global economy, Asia's Reckoning reveals how that structure is falling apart.