October 10, 2016

"With the US presidential election entering the sprint stage, Barack Obama's eight-year term is also close to an end. Looking back over his eight years in power, the president has brought many new ideas and changes for US diplomacy - giving priority to using multilateral platforms to solve hot spot issues, making efforts to ease relations with hostile countries, promoting non-traditional security issues including climate change and non-proliferation. One of the most notable changes is that the US has shifted its strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific region, and 'rebalancing' has become key to its foreign policy.

Obama's 'pivot' has a unique background and rationality. On the one side, during the George W. Bush period, the US, to a large degree, focused too much on the Middle East and anti-terrorism while ignoring Asia, making its Asia-Pacific allies and partners dissatisfied. 'The US is losing Asia' has increasingly become a worry among the US strategic circles. It can be said that pivot to Asia was the US bolstering weak spots."

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