China 2025 - Aaron Friedberg on China - Asia Relations (2/2)

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Dr. Aaron Friedberg delivers his keynote at Project 2049 and Council on Foreign Relations' conference, China 2025 on Oct. 19, 2009.

Dr. Aaron Friedberg is a professor at Princeton University, but also is experienced in government, serving as the Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs in the office of the Vice President (2003-05) and serving on the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion. Dr. Friedberg is the author of two books, The Weary Titan, 1895-1905: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline (Princeton University Press, 1988) and In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press, 2000).

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[lagrangewei]

it a mistake to assume China-US relation as the dominate tie that shape Asia. in reality, it is the relation with ASEAN that determines the future of Asia. China has already notice that and had largely been successful in courting ASEAN cooperation, this is in fact that catalyst that resulted in Japanese PM's declaration of an "East Asian Union" that "exclude the US".

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US failure to engage the region by holding democracy above the interest of other Asian nation is what eroded their influence.