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Author : Yu. Belobrov
Senior research associate, Institute for Contemporary International Studies, Diplomatic Academy, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Science (Political Science)
TOTAL CONTROL over the Asia-Pacific as a step toward
world domination had been on America's agenda for a long
time before the dynamic shifts of recent decades, the status
of the leading world powers reached by China and India and
their membership, together with Russia, in the SCO and
BRICS raised fairly high barriers to Washington's global am-
bitions.
Political rebalancing in the APR has been triggered by the
de facto status of China as the Washington's key interests in
the world. American analysts proceed from their stronger
apprehensions that China's economic growth and mounting
military might will make its foreign policies more aggressive and a military conflict in the region
more probable.
THE STRATEGIC SHIFT toward the Asia-Pacific forced Washington to elaborate a set of po-
litical, economic, military and other measures designed, on the one hand, to draw China into the
world process on the side of the West and, on the other, to keep China's influence in the region
within certain limits, that is, to apply hedging or containment methods to it.
India's new eastern policy gave Washington a chance to start talking about its strategic rapproche-
ment with the American course at rebalancing the region and about common values and recip-
rocal interests of "the world's two largest democracies" to arrive at strategic and economic
partnership with India in the security sphere, in the first place.
RUSSIA AND CHINA do not underestimate the gravity of Washington's designs and practical
steps to strengthen its positions in the Asia-Pacific. Neither Russia nor China wants the United
States as the only powerful player in the region and its stronger military-political status there.
Neither Russia nor China can single-handedly oppose it. Together, however, they are the real
force that can sober up the increasingly aggressive power on the other side of the ocean. This
has created a firm foundation for further strategic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing to
jointly protect their similar interests.
To consolidate their positions in the face of America's increasingly aggressive policy, they should
not limit themselves to the joint measures designed to promote their strategic partnership and
to defend their legitimate national interests but to arrive at a common strategy of opposing the
U.S. hegemonic ambitions in the region.
Geopolitical Ambitions and Intrigues of the United States in the
APR