John Kerry's tour in Indochina

The US State Secretary is now on a visit to Cambodia. Before he was in Laos. The main purpose of the trip is to form a closer relationship to the United States and to contain China and the possible engagement of new countries in the region in its economic projects such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Paradoxically, after Laos and Cambodia, John Kerry will go to China on Wednesday. This time, the official agenda will be the "deterrence of North Korea."

The end of "G2"

In the second half of the 2000s, the United States lobbied to form an alliance with China as a new model of the world order. It was called the "Great Two" (G2). To process was actively supported by Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Hillary Clinton, who at that time occupied the position of Secretary of State.

Beijing has not justified the hopes of the White House and continues to promote the idea of ​​multipolarity (duojihua), as well as forming pragmatic relations within the SCO, BRICS and other projects.

Pacific axis of Obama and Chinese expansion

As China's economic growth is directly threatened by the hegemony of the US, Washington increasingly creates the image of a "Chinese threat" and manipulates the regional satellites. The conflict over the disputed islands in the South China Sea is playing into the hands of the United States to increase its military capacity and the deployment of new military bases.

China, for its part, continues its peaceful economic expansion to the south without imposing any requirements to potential partners.

At the same time, the United States understands that the main traffic of world trade passes through the Southeast Asia, especially the South China Sea, which the US geostrategists have dubbed as the Heart Sea, by analogy with the world's continental Heartland (Russia-Eurasia) of Halford Mackinder. That is why it is important for the US to establish a permanent military-political presence there to continue monitoring global sea transportation. Currently about 40% of the US Navy is in the Pacific region.

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