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In 2011, the Obama administration boldly announced apivotto Asia, declaring a new U.S. focus on the Asia-Pacific in order to cope with a rising China. Subsequent administrations have paid at least lip service to the idea that the Asia-Pacific is the most important strategic domain for the United States—until thesecond Trumpteam came along, pivoting to the Western Hemisphere.
Is there any life left in the idea? Zack Cooper, an experienced Asia hand at the American Enterprise Institute, has pronounced it dead, arguing persuasively inForeign Affairsthat the pivot failed. The United StatesmovingAsia-Pacific military assets—most dramatically, movingTHAADand Patriot missile defense systems from South Korea, and ships 5000 Marinesfrom Japanto the Persian Gulf as the Iran war deepens—speaks for itself.
In 2011, the Obama administration boldly announced apivotto Asia, declaring a new U.S. focus on the Asia-Pacific in order to cope with a rising China. Subsequent administrations have paid at least lip service to the idea that the Asia-Pacific is the most important strategic domain for the United States—until thesecond Trumpteam came along, pivoting to the Western Hemisphere.
Is there any life left in the idea? Zack Cooper, an experienced Asia hand at the American Enterprise Institute, has pronounced it dead, arguing persuasively inForeign Affairsthat the pivot failed. The United StatesmovingAsia-Pacific military assets—most dramatically, movingTHAADand Patriot missile defense systems from South Korea, and ships 5000 Marinesfrom Japanto the Persian Gulf as the Iran war deepens—speaks for itself.
Since the U.S. became a predominant global power after World War II, there has been a perennial tension between the push of declared priorities and reacting to the pull of events as Washington sought to pursue global primacy imperatives.
The reality of actual post-Cold War U.S. foreign polic
সূত্র: Foreign Policy
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