Impact of the ＂U.S. Asia-Pacific Rebalancing Strategy＂ on Sino-U.S. Relations

In 2010, the U.S. proposed the return to the Asia-Pacific strategy, which is America＇s one of the most important post-Cold War global strategic adjustments, as well as one of the policies with greatest impact on the external environment for China. Although the United States replaces the controversial term ＂return to Asia＂ with ＂strategic pivot＂, ＂Asia-Pacific rebalancing strategy＂, and other new versions, its essence is unchanged against China. So far, the earliest and the most complete exposition on the Asia-Pacific rebalancing strategy was published in November 2011, by Ms. Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State of the US, in her article - ＂America＇s Pacific Century＂ published in Foreign Policy, where she formally announced a high profile US return to the Asia-Pacific. ＂The United States Return to Asia＂ strategy includes political, military and economic aspects. Politically, they carried out ＂forward-deployed diplomacy＂, ＂multilateral diplomacy＂, ＂values diplomacy＂, etc.; militarily, they insisted ＂cons