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Chinese influence in Southeast Asia poses critical challenges to the U.S.-Japan alliance in an age of great power competition. We will explore those challenges and how the US and Japan are responding through the lenses of geopolitics, geoeconomics, grand strategy, and the arts of statecraft. We will bring these lenses to bear on the questions: “Why is Southeast Asia so important to the region’s great powers?” “How are the U.S. and Japan competing with China in Southeast Asia?” and “Is a regional order that imposes restraint on competing great powers possible?”