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The Asian Pivot and a New Bipolarity

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US-China Strategic Competition

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Abstract

This chapter traces evolving US approaches towards China during the Obama Administration’s first term, recounting how Obama sought early on to draw China into the US-led order as a junior partner and why, by the end of his first year in office, failure had changed the direction of effort to more muscular responses to China’s ‘rise’. It examines deepening mutual insecurity in military, diplomatic and economic realms despite growing interdependence, and analyses intensifying and institutionalised strategic competition manifest in the dialectic development and deployment of military technologies, platforms and doctrine, paralleling a sharpening of mutually adversarial discourse, threatening to destabilise regional and systemic equilibrium.

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Ali, S.M. (2015). The Asian Pivot and a New Bipolarity. In: US-China Strategic Competition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46660-5_3

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