摘要
After the Obama administration came to power in 2009,the United States began to readjust its global strategy rapidly,“Asia-Pacific Rebalance”becoming the label of the Asia-Pacific strategy of the Obama administration.Since Trump entered the White House in 2017,“Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy”has become the most important regional strategy of the current US administration.From“Asia-Pacific Rebalance”to“Indo-Pacific Strategy”,what are the similarities and differences of the successive strategies applied to China’s neighborhood region between the two US presidents from the Democratic Party and the Republican Party respectively?Behind different names and appellations,what are the variations and contradictions in US diplomacy as a whole as reflected in these strategies?What are the inspirations Chinese diplomacy can draw on from the practices of US regional strategies in the past decade?As the current term of the Trump administration is to expire,this Essay attempts to provide preliminary analyses and answers to above questions.
