Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia

Presents America and china’s legacies and contemporary roles in Southeast Asia. Describes Southeast Asian encounters with America and China. Examines the comprehensive competition between the United States and China, which is the most distinguishing feature of international relations at present and indefinitely into the future. Challenges the pervasive and predominant narrative that China is the "inevitable" dominant power while the US is in inexorable decline. Makes predictions about the future of the relationship between China and the United States.