The Time Is Now:

Clearly the Trump Administration will be pushed in many directions on foreign policy issues. The goal for this new team should be to prioritize a few key objectives and stick to a set vision for what they wish to achieve — and never to allow a crisis-management mentality to set in. If Trump were to focus his efforts on a robust and tightly defined pivot to the Asia-Pacific, setting important benchmarks and goals while working to restrain China’s attempts to reshape the region, he would set up his administration for a least one big success story.

Harry J. Kazianis (@grecianformula) is director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, founded by former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. Kazianis also presently serves as Executive Editor of the National Interest and fellow at both the Potomac Foundation and the Center for China Policy at the University of Nottingham (UK). He is the author of the book The Tao of A2/AD: China’s Rationale for the Creation of Anti-Access. Kazianis in the past has led the foreign policy communication efforts of the Heritage Foundation, is the former editor-in-chief of The Diplomat and a fellow at CSIS:PACNET. The views expressed are his own.

This first appeared in RealClearWorld here.