For all its benefits to building global prosperity, globalization has in recent years revived a period of great power politics. Nowhere is this jostle for economic, cultural, and security influence more prevalent than in the Asia-Pacific region, where countries must find the balance between competing geopolitical push and pull factors. Will politics or economics be the main driver of US-Asia relations in the years ahead? What impacts might President Biden's Indo-Pacific framework or newly formed security blocs have in reshaping relations among Asia's increasingly wealthy and interconnected countries? Can countries remain politically neutral and still reap the economic benefits of deeper multilateralism throughout the Asia-Pacific region?