At the end of the first month of his presidency, how should we anticipate Trump’s post “pivot to Asia” policy toward East Asia? What matters: his personnel picks, his tweets and statements, meetings and calls with foreign leaders, or the intersection of US actions and those of countries in East Asia? Many US analysts are not wedded to all of the pivot, but this was seen largely as a bipartisan foreign policy in need of new vigor. Is Trump likely to reinvigorate it or scrap the pivot for something new?

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