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The United States' political leadership began to shift policy stances in 2011, starting with the Obama administration's "pivot" toward Asia. Then- secretary of state Hillary Clinton called for "increased investment—diplomatic, economic, strategic, and otherwise—in the Asia-Pacific region", which was seen as a move to counter China's growing ...
United States Information Service propaganda poster distributed in Asia depicting Juan dela Cruz ready to defend the Philippines from the threat of communism. Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II.
On the sidelines of China's annual National People's Congress this week, both Chinese President Xi Jinping and newly promoted Foreign Minister Qin Gang aired their respective frustrations at the ...
The first island chain perimeter (marked in red).. The first island chain is the first string of major Pacific archipelagos out from the East Asian continental mainland coast. It is principally composed of the Kuril Islands, the Japanese archipelago, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan (), the northern Philippines, and Borneo, hence extending all the way from the Kamchatka Peninsula in the northeast to ...
China's defence ministry blamed the United States' stance on Taiwan for its minister not meeting his U.S. counterpart during a gathering this week in Laos. Defence Minister Dong Jun turned down ...
The absence of clear policy toward Latin America has emboldened China into growing its influence in the region. China’s Cuba spy base signals the need to discard US failed policy of containment ...
See United States–Hong Kong Policy Act and United States–Macau Policy Act Republic of China: 1844 [1] 1911 (ended 1979) 1979 (Taiwan Relations Act - unofficial) See Taiwan–United States relations. The U.S. recognized the Nationalist Government as the legitimate government of all of China throughout the Chinese Civil War.
In Northeast Asia developments relating to North Korea highlighted the importance of Sino-US cooperation. The Republican administration was critical of the 1994 Geneva Accord for giving too much energy and financial assistance to North Korea without there being any guarantee that it would not renege on its commitment.