In 2011, the Obama administration boldly announced a pivot to Asia, declaring a new U.S. focus on the Asia-Pacific in order to cope with a rising China. Subsequent administrations have paid at least lip service to the idea that the Asia-Pacific is the most important strategic domain for the United States—until the second Trump team came along, pivoting to the Western Hemisphere. Is there any life left in the idea? Zack Cooper, an experienced Asia hand at the American Enterprise Institute, has