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How can we envision the full impact of a disaster with no comparison in recent history? In his essay for the New Normal in Asia series, Dennis C. Blair contemplates the legacy of past natural disasters in Asia and identifies three effects of the pandemic that will leave an imprint on the Asian security architecture of the future. Accompanying this essay is Admiral Blair’s chapter on U.S. national security (free for a limited time) from the Strategic Asia archives. For a quick read, this week’s interview with Thomas Pepinsky brings a narrower focus to the political and economic impact of the pandemic on Southeast Asian countries.

On the larger question of U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy, I invite you to join next Wednesday’s virtual discussion accompanying the release of the report “A New U.S. Strategy for the Indo-Pacific.” This issue of Asia on Tap offers the introductory chapter as a preview.

Roy Kamphausen
President, National Bureau of Asian Research