By Shen Dingli, Satoru Mori, Jaechun Kim, Dhruva Jaishankar, Prashanth Parameswaran, Euan Graham and Patrick Ingle
September 30, 2016
Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be the next U.S. president. What does Asia think about the election?
Shortly after taking office in 2009, U.S. President
Barack Obama labeled himself “America’s first Pacific president” and laid out a
policy pivot – later rebranded as a rebalance – to bring the Asia-Pacific
region closer to the heart of American foreign engagement. In much of Asia,
this turn was welcomed but watched with a wary eye. From the Asian perspective,
the United States had been distracted by the Middle East for decades – could
Washington really end its regional absenteeism?
Now, nearly eight years
later Asia watches from across the Pacific as the United States writhes amid
one of the strangest presidential election seasons in its history. With U.S.
voters poised to choose between former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and business mogul Donald Trump, analysts from key Asian partners
– China, Japan, Korea, India, ASEAN, and Australia – chime in with
regional perspectives on the campaign.
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