{"id":5939,"date":"2009-05-13T18:35:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T22:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2009-05-13T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:49:56","slug":"update-the-latest-from-professor-michael-auslin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/13\/update-the-latest-from-professor-michael-auslin\/","title":{"rendered":"Update:  The latest from Professor Michael Auslin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uscc.gov\/hearings\/2009hearings\/bios\/09_03_04_bios\/auslin_clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"177\" \/>Here&#8217;s the latest from JET alum <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.aei.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/scholars\/filter.,scholarID.127\/scholar.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michael Auslin<\/strong><\/a>, a professor of Japanese history and politics and currently the Director of Japanese Studies for the American Enterprise Institute in D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/book\/100009\" target=\"_blank\">The Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Edited by <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/schmitt\" target=\"_blank\">Gary J. Schmitt<\/a>, with contributions from <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/auslin\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Auslin<\/a><\/strong>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/blumenthal\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Blumenthal<\/a>, Ellen Bork, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/eberstadt\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Eberstadt<\/a>, Robert Kagan, Schmitt, and Ashley J. Tellis; April 2009;\u00a0 Contributors to this volume challenge the prevailing benign view of China&#8217;s rise and analyze what the United States and its allies might do in the arenas of foreign and defense affairs to meet the challenges posed by China&#8217;s increased political, economic, and military power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Obama&#8217;s Hundred-Day Scorecard on Asia Policy<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Japan<\/strong><br \/>\nGrade: B<\/p>\n<p>One step forward, two steps back. Secretary Clinton&#8217;s trip to Japan as the first stop on her diplomatic voyage was an important symbolic gesture to reassure Tokyo that Washington still values it as its key Asian ally and a proactive attempt to reengage Japan. However, the U.S. failure to make clear its commitment to defending Japanese territory prior to North Korea&#8217;s missile launch, compounded by its inability or unwillingness to secure a new resolution punishing Pyongyang&#8217;s provocation&#8211;the United States ultimately codrafted a presidential statement with the Chinese&#8211;left Japan feeling isolated. Furthermore, Tokyo and Washington face potentially troublesome days ahead fulfilling long-standing alliance agreements to restructure forces. Symbolic gestures will be no substitute for a firm working relationship built on shared interests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/auslin\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Auslin<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest from JET alum Michael Auslin, a professor of Japanese history and politics and currently the Director of Japanese Studies for the American Enterprise Institute in D.C. The Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition &#8211; Edited by Gary J. Schmitt, with contributions from Michael Auslin, Dan Blumenthal, Ellen Bork, Nicholas Eberstadt, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,4,40,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-articlejournalism","category-books","category-japan-trends","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1xN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5943,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}