| ID | 174405 |
| Title Proper | Explaining China's Hedging to the United States' Indo-Pacific Strategy |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ye, Xiaodi |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | How China responds to the United States' Indo-Pacific strategy has become a crucial question for both policymakers and academics. The existing literature primarily focuses on how and why the United States, Japan, Australia, and India have promoted the Indo-Pacific concept and how this concept has imposed strategic pressure on China's national security. However, China's changing and complex attitudes and strategic responses to the Indo-Pacific concept have largely been overlooked. This article analyzes China's response from the perspective of a hedging strategy. It argues that while confronting the expanding range of containment, which is the crux of the Indo-Pacific strategy, China has applied a hedging strategy from two interrelated perspectives. In responding to the United States, the Chinese government adheres to the nonalliance principle and upgrades its China-Russia strategic partnership to resist the security pressure produced by the Indo-Pacific strategy. In responding to peripheral countries, China has adopted a reassurance approach to create a cooperative incentive for peripheral countries, particularly those that have security relations with the United States. |
| `In' analytical Note | China Review Vol. 20, No.3; Aug 2020: p.205-237 |
| Journal Source | China Review 2020-08 20, 3 |
| Key Words | China ; Hedging ; United States' Indo-Pacific Strategy |