For their part, the Labor Party has proposed a different Asia policy, although the border policy would remain.

Say it all went wrong: What would America's Asia policy look like?

Economics dominate Japan policy, Asia policy and Latin American policy as well.

He took a swipe at the Administration's Asia policy, arguing that China was a competitor of the United States, not a strategic ally.

One points this out not to condemn America's Asia policy of the 1940s and 1950s, but merely to observe that democracy-promotion wasn't especially high on the agenda.

Asia policy in particular has drifted, Mr. Zoellick and others say, just when China has become a central issue.

Derek James Mitchell (born September 16, 1964) is an American diplomat with extensive experience in Asia policy.

But as the President sets out his vision of Asia policy this week, some say it will have come not a moment too soon.

For India is the alternative for the European Union and its Asia policy.

And there is increasing criticism of America's Asia policy as ad hoc and reactive.