Richard McGregor is a senior fellow for east Asia at the Lowy Institute. He is author of "Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century."
"You are not walking alone," says Shingo Yamagami, Tokyo's ambassador to Canberra, who has delivered this message to Australians nonstop since taking up his post in late 2020.
