Without America: Australia in the New Asia

For almost a decade now, the world's two most powerful countries have been competing over which of them will dominate the world's most important and dynamic region. America has been trying to remain East Asia's primary power, and China has been trying to replace it. Their contest is playing out over trade deals and infrastructure plans, in the diplomacy of multilateral meetings, and above all through military gamesmanship in regional hotspots like the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the Korean Peninsula. But all these are really just symptoms of their underlying rivalry.