Pivot Toward Asia and March West Diversifying Forms of Rebalancing Conflicting Strategies

Abstract

China's foreign policy community contemplates is how to counter the U.S. rebalancing to Asia. A grand strategic proposal has been made that China shift its attention from the heated competition in East Asia and rebalance its geographical focus westwards to the vast area from Central Asia to the Middle East, where the U.S. is pivoting away from. The research problem is concentrated on the question content: What kind of competition between the U.S and China among their strategies? and could it turn into a struggle or manage their relationship peacefully! The main findings of the research can be summarized that both strategies are aimed to reach a status of power balancing in both the Middle East and East Asia