Three perspectives on the present and future of America’s Asia policy have been heard in Washington in the past weeks.

They came during a state visit to the US capital by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida; in remarks by the former head of Singapore’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, Bilahari Kausikan; and from an article co-written by Matt Pottinger, former president Donald Trump’s deputy national security adviser, and Mike Gallagher, retiring Republican congressman and formerly chairman of the House Select Committee on China.