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Cooperation Over the Pacific

Washington's strategic re-engagement in the Asia-Pacific and reorientation of geostrategic priorities from Afghanistan and Iraq to Asia are changing the status quo in the Asia-Pacific region and altering the existing balance of power

Back in Town

The United States has shifted its focus to the Asia-Pacific, sparking a heated debate in the Chinese media and academic community on a number of critical issues: Is the Obama administration's new Asia-Pacific strategy in opposition to China? What will be the implications of this strategy? And how will China and the United States interact with each other in the Asia-Pacific region?

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Eastern Focus
A series of high-profile summits shift global attention from West to East

Pacific Standard
The United States pushes for greater economic integration of the Asia-Pacific region

Building the Sino-U.S. Bridge
Mutual confidence is key to a cooperative relationship between China and the United States

Exiting Afghanistan
The United States prepares to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan

Official View

Cooperation Over Confrontation

In a speech at a seminar on China's diplomacy in December 2011, Assistant Foreign Minister Le Yucheng addressed concerns about Washington's increased input in the Asia-Pacific region. His views follow:

The United States has never left Asia Pacific, so there is no "return." China does not want to and cannot push the United States out of Asia Pacific. We hope the United States can play a constructive role in this region, and that includes respecting China's major concerns and core interests. The Pacific Ocean is vast enough to accommodate the coexistence and cooperation between these two countries

Opinion

Washington Looks to the East
The United States appears poised to use the Hawaii APEC Summit to bolster its presence in the Asia Pacific (Chen Xiangyang, deputy director of the Institute of World Political Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations)