If those efforts fail, she said, the Biden administration would likely need a substantial strategy for how to work with U.S. allies and partners to deter or contain China and Russia by viewing them as one "hostile bloc sitting in the middle of Eurasia" instead of trying to deal with them as two separate regions.
"What is really necessary is a vision that connects all the American alliances and partners at the rim of Eurasia -- NATO, AUKUS the Quad and other partners," Iwama said, referring to a new Indo-Pacific security partnership between Australia, Britain and the United States and a group of four major Indo-Pacific democracies consisting of the United States, Japan, Australia and India.
