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Aug 26, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Robert D. Blackwill |Richard Fontaine |Titus Techera |Leonidas Zelmanovitz
In 2011, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that “the United States stands at a pivot point” in its geostrategic and geoeconomic position in world affairs. Her comment in an article published in Foreign Policy came at a time when the US was winding down its wars on terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan and when Europe seemed largely quiescent as it entered the third decade of the post-Soviet era.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Robert D. Blackwill |Richard Fontaine
Editor’s Note: The following article contains excerpts from Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power (Oxford University Press, 2024) with the permission of the publishers. From Washington’s Farewell Address to Biden’s national security strategy, the core U.S. national interest, unsurprisingly, has not changed: to ensure the fundamental security of the homeland and its people in freedom.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Robert D. Blackwill |Richard Fontaine
Economics China For more than two centuries, the United States was a Europe-first power. In 2011, however, the Obama administration announced a change to America’s strategic orientation. Asia would henceforth serve as its priority region, and the United States would refocus its military, diplomatic, and economic emphasis on the Indo-Pacific.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Oriana Skylar Mastro |Robert D. Blackwill |Richard Fontaine
In This Review In This Review Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power During the past two decades, many American leaders have argued that U.S. foreign policy must focus more on Asia.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
warontherocks.com | Robert D. Blackwill |Richard Fontaine |Marshall Kosloff
Marshall Kosloff talks with Ambassador Robert Blackwill and Richard Fontaine about their new book, “Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power.”Image: U.S. Department of State
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Robert D. Blackwill
The international system is well into its most challenging period since the years that led up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, as the liberal world order gradually erodes. U.S.-China relations are on a path to an eventual confrontation while the balance of power in Asia shifts against the United States. A Russian dictator seeks to overthrow the European security system that brought peace and prosperity to the continent for many decades.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
thecipherbrief.com | Robert D. Blackwill |Richard Fontaine
BOOK REVIEW: LOST DECADE: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese PowerBy Robert D. Blackwill and Richard Fontaine/Oxford University PressReviewed by: Martin PetersenThe Reviewer — Martin Petersen is a CIA veteran, Asia expert, and a Cipher Brief Expert. He is the author of City of Lost Souls, A Novel of Shanghai 1932, which will be published later this year. REVIEW — Lost Decade is the latest in a series of books that look at the state of US-China relations and project the future.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Robert D. Blackwill
The international system is well into its most challenging period since the years that led up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, as the liberal world order gradually erodes. U.S.-China relations are on a path to an eventual confrontation while the balance of power in Asia shifts against the United States. A Russian dictator seeks to overthrow the European security system that brought peace and prosperity to the continent for many decades.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Robert D. Blackwill |Richard Fontaine
What challenges does China pose that require a U.S. shift to a vigorous Asia-centric strategy? Throughout the 2010s and under the current leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping, China has worked successfully to fundamentally alter the balance of power in Asia and beyond at the expense of the United States.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Robert D. Blackwill |Richard Fontaine
Democracy Dies in DarknessRobert D. Blackwill is Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Richard Fontaine is CEO of the Center for a New American Security. They are co-authors of “Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power.”In 2011, President Barack Obama announced that the United States would, after centuries of preoccupation with Europe and decades of Middle East wars, put the Asia-Pacific region first.
