Email this article The Military Strategy of the Biden Administration in the Indo-Pacific Region
- Authors: Batyuk V.I.1
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Affiliations:
- Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 6 (2024)
- Pages: 5-15
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2686-6730/article/view/261187
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S2686673024060014
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/ZBRSVY
- ID: 261187
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Abstract
From the point of view of the American ruling elite, China is the main opponent of the United States in the international arena. Currently, the balance of forces (economic, military, technological) between the United States and China is changing not in favor of America, and Washington is forced to build a whole system of alliances and partnerships in the IndoPacific region for strategic deterrence and, possibly, strategic encirclement of the PRC. The very idea of the IPR arose from the American ruling elite as the optimal form for the implementation of this strategy. Currently, however, the United States has failed to realize the idea of China's economic and political isolation – not all countries in the Indo-Pacific region are ready to join the anti-Chinese policy of the United States.
About the authors
V. I. Batyuk
Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: ctas@inbox.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1838-8616
Scopus Author ID: 54883750900
ResearcherId: O-9977-2015
Doctor of Science in History, Senior Research Fellow Moscow, Russian Federation.
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