The US Asia-Pacific Rebalancing Strategy And Its Impact On China’s Peripheral Security Environment And China’s Countermeasures

In the tide of globalization, China obtained the rapid development of economic through reform and opening up, the comprehensive national strength is also rising. Thanks to China to grasp the theme of the times of peace and development, actively creating and maintaining a stable environment at home and abroad. China has been committed to creating and maintaining a favorable economic development of China’s domestic environment. But this effort is not easy, on the contrary, because of the complexity of China’s surrounding environment, resulting in a costly. In content, China’s peripheral mainly includes:there is territory, the territorial disputes with some neighboring countries; there are multiple powers in this area; in traditional security and non-traditional security issues, etc.. In problem solving, the historical factors because these problems are more complex and realistic factors, cause these problems in the short term cannot be properly addressed. This makes our country needs to spend a lot of diplomatic effort in the surrounding area. This not only restricts China’s own economic development, but also restricts China to the world.There is a very important factor that let China surrounding environment more complicated--the United States. After the Cold War, the United States as the world’s sole superpower. In order to consolidate its leadership, the United States established a set of strategies on a global scale. In the Asia-pacific region, China has been America’s main rival. After the cold war the United States successive governments have the Asia-pacific strategy for the specific design, contain China has always been its strategic focus. Especially after the Obama administration took office, the US global strategic focus has shifted to the Asia-Pacific region; China is to be its strategic focus. Because of the participation of the United States, make further complicate the already complicated regional issues. The direct or indirect participation and influence to our country’s territorial disputes, let the dispute of China and foreign countries established stalemate, also gives the interior problem in China (Taiwan) manufacturing difficulties.. At the same time, the traditional regional security issues, the Korean peninsula issue, because of the complicated historical problems and the current U.S. support for South Korea’s attitude, lead to north Korea’s hostile to the United States, and then guide regional tensions. Finally, the US activities in the region, so that the effectiveness of Chinese conduct diplomacy with neighboring countries in the region greatly reduced. China’s growing strength to make some neighboring countries feel threatened by the US activities so that these countries tend to introduce this as a bargaining chip extraterritorial power of their relationship with China. So China will need more effort to get to run around the more effective.