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Yet while Asia\u2019s future is often posited as a strategic competition between the United States and China, regional dynamics in many respects will hinge on the choices taken by Asia\u2019s other great and middle powers, including India, Japan, and Australia. These nations are building strategic ties with each other even as they enhance relations with Washington and pursue constructive ties with Beijing. Indeed, the Asia-Pacific\u2019s successful democracies, from India to Australia to Indonesia to South Korea, are not only valuable security partners for America but are themselves agents of the rules and norms that underpin regional peace. As the liberal order in the world economy\u2019s Indo-Pacific heartland increasingly comes under challenge, including from China\u2019s maritime expansionism, Asia-Pacific powers can work more closely with each other and the United States to safeguard regional stability on the basis not only of shared interests but of common values. Rather than isolating China, such cooperation is likely to influence China\u2019s own internal development in a more open and pluralistic direction, enhancing regional peace and creating a more durable foundation for shared prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Twining is director and senior fellow for Asia at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where he leads a 15-member team working on the rise of Asia and its implications for the West through a program of convening and research spanning East, Southeast, and South Asia. 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