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Two years after Secretary Hillary Clinton’s statement on America’s refocusing on the Asia-Pacific region, vividly and controversially expressed as a “pivot” to Asia, we still do not see any significant increase of American influence in the East Asian region. China has maintained her tough position on territorial claims that has led to conflicts with neighboring Vietnam, the Philippines, and Japan, while the relations between South Korea and Japan—the principal American allies in the region—have stalled since the inauguration of President Park Geun-hye.
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http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/australia/joint0703.html. For a more detailed discussion, see William Tow and Rikki Kersten, eds., Bilateral Perspectives on Regional Security: Australia, Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
See, for example, Ely Ratner, “Rebalancing to Asia with an Insecure China,” Washington Quarterly 36, no. 2 (2013): 1–38. Aaron Friedberg discusses rebalancing as a combination of engagement and balancing in “Bucking Beijing: An Alternative U.S. China Policy,” Foreign Affairs 91, no. 5 (2012): 48–58.
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Fujiwara, K. (2015). Rebalancing and Entanglement: America’s Dilemma in East Asia. In: Rozman, G. (eds) Asia’s Alliance Triangle. Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137541710_12
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