The area where I think we need to focus our attention in coming years is Asia. In his first six years in office, two of President Obama’s many important words were “and” and “pivot”. Before he came to power, the US had an annual strategic economic dialogue with China. He changed this to a strategic “and” economic dialogue. The importance of this is huge. The good news is that it has allowed China and the US to become increasingly economically linked, with a cat’s cradle of interconnections, despite the politics.