FROM October 2011, senior US officials launched a “pivot” to the East Asia and Pacific maritime region.
The idea of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to refocus US assets and strategies on this region was soon relabelled as a “rebalancing”. Soon, this largely military concept would become the stuff of an Obama legacy to be.
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