Leadership over U.S. President Donald Trump's Asia policy has jockeyed between "security internationalists" such as Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and "economic nationalists" like Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, according to an American scholar specializing in Asian security."Since the beginning, the administration has been a battleground between the two groups," said Zack Cooper, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, as internationalists appear to be driving security policy and nationalists advocating the "America First" approach dominant in economic affairs.…READ FULL ARTICLE
