By Mercy A. Kuo and Angelica O. Tang
Insights from Patrick Chovanec
The Rebalance authors Mercy Kuo and Angie Tang regularly engage subject-matter experts, policy practitioners and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into the U.S. rebalance to Asia. This conversation with Patrick Chovanec – Chief Strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management, frequent commentator on CNN, BBC, Voice of America, and Bloomberg, and contributor to Forbes, Foreign Policy, Al-Jazeera, among many others, and named one of the “102 Finance People You Have to Follow on Twitter” by Business Insider in 2014 – is the twelfth in “The Rebalance Insight Series”.
Has the U.S. rebalance to Asia been effective, and how do you see it evolving in under the next U.S. president?
People in the Asia-Pacific region hear the message about U.S. commitment, but they want to see the evidence. Can the U.S. deliver on TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership], which it has made the centerpiece of its economic agenda in the region? Or does that get bogged down in Congress, because the president is unwilling to commit political capital to making it a priority? They hear the U.S. is focused on Asia, then they see Secretary of State [John] Kerry spending virtually all his time in the Middle East, and they have to wonder. Whether on security or economics, they want to know the U.S. is actually going to be there, and not cede the agenda to China. The next president will face the same test.
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