"Japan: America’s indispensable ally" - CWP alum Adam Liff

Over the past decade, it has become increasingly common in U.S. foreign policy circles to identify Japan as America’s “indispensable ally.” And for good reason.

From the urgent and shared need to counter-balance an increasingly assertive and powerful China to joint efforts to ensure resilient semiconductor supply chains, on a wide array of issues Japan is now widely seen as America’s most important partner in Asia, if not the world.

This trend reflects increasingly mainstream recognition of a decades-old reality: The U.S.-Japan security alliance is an essential enabler of and force multiplier for U.S. strategic objectives in the Indo-Pacific—the world’s most populous, economically dynamic, and geopolitically consequential region.

Adam P. Liff Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies

September 16, 2024 - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/japan-americas-indispensable-ally/

Adam P. Liff is an Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations
Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative
On leave from IU in 2023-2024

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