While President Joe Biden outlined grand plans for America in 2021, his foreign policy has been underwhelming by comparison, evincing little of the ambition he has shown on the home front. His Asia policy, similarly, has been simultaneously bereft of any unifying concept and stuck in a militarist posture inherited from his predecessor.  

Although Asian policy elites have welcomed aspects of Biden’s approach to the region — namely the restoration of normalcy, respect for allies, and quiet diplomacy — the sources of regional order for the past generation are very much in flux and U.S. officials seem not