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(dāng)美國(guó)總統(tǒng)巴拉克?奧巴馬(Barack Obama)出訪亞洲時(shí)，他將看到一個(gè)躁動(dòng)不安、不斷變化的地區(qū)。在這個(gè)新的亞洲，美國(guó)如果不更積極地尋求塑造一個(gè)新的地區(qū)政治經(jīng)濟(jì)秩序，就有可能最終被邊緣化。奧巴馬會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)，他的作為，或者不作為，將對(duì)美國(guó)的長(zhǎng)期利益產(chǎn)生重大影響。最重要的是，他需要恢復(fù)美國(guó)對(duì)全球和地區(qū)貿(mào)易自由化的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)，從而使美國(guó)回到正重塑亞洲格局的經(jīng)濟(jì)議程的核心。