Joshua Kurlantzick is a senior fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World and A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA.
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