Excerpt from The Future of U. S. Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Hearings Before the Subcommittees on International Economic Policy and Trade, Asia and the Pacific, and International Operations and Human Rights, of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress I apologize to those people here in attendance that we don't have a larger room. It simply was not available because of conflicts today with the full committee's activities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Considers future U.S. policy towards Asia and reviews U.S. relations with Japan and other Asian nations. Focuses on prospects for regional, economic, political, and security arrangements among countries of Asia.

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, , language: English, abstract: Between 1941 and 1991, the key significance of China to the U.S. had been one among the most lasting legends of Sino-American relationship. However, actually, China had had just a secondary significance, and its importance was in the context of crises with other nations, which had partially influenced the U.S diplomacy towards China during the 50 years. Accordingly, the cessation of the Cold War era needed the US foreign policy to reassess the significance of China. It has since become evident that future lasting stability in the Asia-Pacific area substantially rests on harmonious relationship among the U.S, Japan, and China. To the point that the three nations can join forces, they will establish a generally nonthreatening security atmosphere and manage the disputes sure to egress in the Asia-Pacific area. Otherwise, conflict and latent hostilities among the three nations will have a deeply threatening effect in the region.

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the center of the continent, or Japan, looking toward the Pacific. Where should the United States draw its defensive line, and how should it export democratic principles? In a history that spans the eighteenth century to the present, Michael J. Green follows the development of U.S. strategic thinking toward East Asia, identifying recurring themes in American statecraft that reflect the nation's political philosophy and material realities. Drawing on archives, interviews, and his own experience in the Pentagon and White House, Green finds one overarching concern driving U.S. policy toward East Asia: a fear that a rival power might use the Pacific to isolate and threaten the United States and prevent the ocean from becoming a conduit for the westward free flow of trade, values, and forward defense. By More Than Providence works through these problems from the perspective of history's major strategists and statesmen, from Thomas Jefferson to Alfred Thayer Mahan and Henry Kissinger. It records the fate of their ideas as they collided with the realities of the Far East and adds clarity to America's stakes in the region, especially when compared with those of Europe and the Middle East.