As US president Barack Obama makes his way through Asia he will find a dynamic region in ferment. In this new Asia, the US risks eventual marginalisation unless it more actively seeks to shape a new regional economic and political order. The president will find that his actions – or inactions – will have important implications for US interests in the long term. Above all, he needs to reinvigorate US leadership on global and regional trade liberalisation and thus return the US to the centre of the economic agenda that is reshaping the Asian landscape.
當美國總統巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)出訪亞洲時,他將看到一個躁動不安、不斷變化的地區。在這個新的亞洲,美國如果不更積極地尋求塑造一個新的地區政治經濟秩序,就有可能最終被邊緣化。歐巴馬會發現,他的作爲,或者不作爲,將對美國的長期利益產生重大影響。最重要的是,他需要恢復美國對全球和地區貿易自由化的領導,從而使美國回到正重塑亞洲格局的經濟議程的核心。