The US Asia-Pacific Policy and Regional Response

China's economic growth and military modernization have forced the US to shift its focus from the Middle-East to the Asia-Pacific region. The US Pivot to Asia Pacific policy aims to maintain the US hegemony by containing China in this region. This article is an attempt to gauge the responses of...

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Published inPakistan vision Vol. 21; no. 2; p. 132
Main Authors Shaheen, Nafisa, Askari, Muhammad Usman
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lahore Knowledge Bylanes 31.12.2020
AsiaNet Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd
Subjects
Alliances
Boundary disputes
Cooperation
Disputes
Economic growth
Hegemony
Modernization
Obama, Barack
Presidents
Prime ministers
Regions
Trade agreements
New Zealand
South China Sea
Vietnam
South Korea
Singapore
Cambodia
Pacific Rim
Philippines
Taiwan
Malaysia
Australia
Indonesia
Afghanistan
United States > US
Japan
Asia
Asia-Pacific region
China
Iraq
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Summary:China's economic growth and military modernization have forced the US to shift its focus from the Middle-East to the Asia-Pacific region. The US Pivot to Asia Pacific policy aims to maintain the US hegemony by containing China in this region. This article is an attempt to gauge the responses of those regional countries which are having close economic and political relations with China and the US. It also tries to highlight the factors which increased the US military and diplomatic involvement in the region. This article tries to find the answer of research question that why the US has introduced Asia-Pacific policy and how the regional countries have responded to it. As per the nature of the research, secondary sources have been used to complete this research. Three qualitative approaches such as historical, descriptive and exploratory within the broader framework of post positivist paradigm have been used to find the answer of the research question. This study is conducted under the lens of Hegemonic Stability Theory. This study concludes with the argument that regional countries have shown mixed reactions to the US policy and geo-political competition is likely to grow between the US and China in future.
ISSN:1681-5742