Bangladesh, Nov. 9 -- When Donald Trump returned to the Asian stage this week, global attention largely fixated on his confrontational remarks about China, trade disputes, and shifting security arrangements in the Indo-Pacific. Yet behind the dramatic headlines lies a quieter, unexpected opportunity – the possibility that Washington, under a renewed Trump brand of foreign policy realism, could revive meaningful action on one of the worlds most neglected humanitarian catastrophes: the future of the Rohingya people.

For nearly eight years, the Rohingya crisis has drifted in and out of the worlds consciousness. More than 1.2 million Rohingya refugees remain trapped in the massive camps of Coxs Bazar and Bhasan Char in Bangladesh, livi...