21st century U.S. policy on an emergent China: From strategic constrainment to strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific Region

• Main Author: De Castro, Renato Cruz
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: United States > Foreign relations > Indo-Pacific Region; Indo-Pacific Region > Foreign relations > United States; United States > Foreign relations > China; China > Foreign relations > United States; Balance of power; Great powers; International Relations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2162
• Institution: De La Salle University

During his second term as U.S. president, former President Barack Obama made the Asia-Pacific region the focal point of American strategic attention. In November 2011, he announced the U.S. pivot to Asia. His goal was to constrain China from easing out the U.S. as East Asia’s strategic offshore bala...