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This paper examines the US National Security Strategy outlook on China and Japan. It considers different conceptual approaches: Japan’s potential role as a global partner and China’s potential role as a responsible stakeholder in the international system. The study states that the US National Security Strategy combines elements of both approaches to international and regional order in articulating a “hedge strategy” toward China and highlights some conceptual and policy questions that arise from efforts to integrate the Armitage and Zoellick approaches to Asia.