Michael Auslin

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Michael Auslin is a resident scholar and Director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region.

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So many of his Department's top jobs are still unfilled that Rex Tillerson seems like a lonely Secretary of State, and as a diplomat, he's an amateur.

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America's new president baffles the world

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