| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 政治學研究所 === 103 === Efforts accelerated as 「the American pivot to Asia policy」 became more prior to the other US foreign affairs after the military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan significantly declined in 2011. The United States is trying to restore and then enhance its traditional level of engagement to Asian regional issues, due to the United States lost its stride in the global financial crisis and the weak recovery since then while China in 2010 became the world's second-largest economy has only increased concerns to Beijing when China inevitably surpasses the United States to become the world's most powerful country.
Against this background, the president Obama brought t his decisions to support the regional multilateral organizations. On the economic and trade side, Obama hopes to see the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) become a high-quality trade and investment platform that will include the major economies of the Asia-Pacific. Obama moved to shift the center of gravity among the key multilateral organizations in Asia, favoring those regional countries that include the United States itself and leading them to take approaches favored by Washington but are neuralgic for Beijing.
The rise of China has raised the territorial disputes with Philippines and Vietnam in South China sea, the United States had been responding to its friends allies in Asia by taking actions primarily on the diplomatic and security and Washington was inserting itself with Philippines and Vietnam into these territorial issues and made clear that no threat had arisen to freedom of navigation in the region, no country wants to see a tension-filled US-China relationship that creates pressure for everyone else to choose sides. They rather want to be able to maintain equally effective relations with China and the United States and to derive benefit from both the cooperation and the competition between the two giants in the region. This study will focus on the bilateral relations in the American pivot to Asia policy: the political economy of US-Philippines and US-Vietnam relations to see how can US work the close cooperation with Phillipines and Vietnam to overcome the China threat, as well as to clarify what’s the point of the American avowedly pivot to Asia or the American's power has not been departing from Asia?
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