Michael Auslin is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and the author of Asia’s New Geopolitics. He co-hosts The Pacific Century podcast.
The most innovative part of the China Handbook is the “HFX China Principles,” a set of seven pledges to not be complicit in Beijing’s assault on democracy.
Since 2012, Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and China’s authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping, have been fencing with each other throughout Asia and beyond.