SNS: Asia Letter Q1 2018: Asia Picks Up The Slack

In This Issue
Week of 12/04/2017
Vol. 22 Issue 40

FEATURE: Asia Letter Q1 2018: Asia Picks Up the Slack

• Quotes of Note
• No Sense of Irony
• A Day Late and a Dollar Short
• Everybody’s Out of Step But Me
• Asia Picks Up the Slack
• Japan and China Mend Fences
• Trump Adopts Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategic Quadrangle
• The Peaceful Erosion of American Influence in East Asia
• Trump Presses the Reset Button
• Shock Treatment Required
• About Scott Foster

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Publisher’s Note: In this issue of our quarterly Asia Letter by Scott Foster, he proposes an alliance that we’ve been dreading since the rapprochement between China and Russia – one made possible by Donald Trump’s ongoing and increasingly irrational missteps in foreign policy. There may be worse news than seeing Japan and China working together on a new axis, but if so, I don’t know what it is.

We will be talking more about “China’s New Plan” tonight, 12/7, at our 13th annual Predictions Dinner, held in NYC, where I look forward to seeing many of you for a more prolonged discussion of the fast-changing world of technology and the economy. – mra.