International Relations Researches

International Relations Researches

Domino of America and China in the Asia-Pacific

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.
2 Political researcher and PhD student in Political Science (Iranian Issues), .
10.22034/irr.2025.568256.2815
Abstract
One of the main issues that has attracted the attention of all analysts of the international system from the perspective of strategic studies is the competition between the United States and China in the Asia-Pacific regional environment. What parameters are affected by the United States' strategy to prevent China's rise and becoming a hegemon? It seems that the United States, by adopting a new hegemonic strategy and with a strategy of offshore balance and influence in the Asia-Pacific regional environment, is trying to pressure and prevent China from becoming a hegemon through specific patterns. The present study is of an applied type, with a qualitative-interpretative method and a descriptive-analytical approach. The findings of the study show that, according to geostrategic patterns, the United States, as a hegemon in the global geopolitical system, is afraid of the emergence of another hegemonic power (China) in the environment and is trying to limit this advance through geopolitical territorialization. The Asia-Pacific geopolitical space has geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomic importance for China and in fact this region acts as China's Achilles heel. The US's macro-strategic trends in the Asia-Pacific regional environment are planned by adopting a strategy of offshore balancing through components such as alliance and balancing, QUAD, ECOS and B3W better global reconstruction. In contrast, China's response to advance its strategy is, in short, a rise to hegemony and environmental opening through the Belt and Road Initiative and the New Silk Road.
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