The Strategic Deployment of the US, the People's Republic of China and the Security in Asia 2010-11

This article analyzes the United States and the RPC posture, and their impact in Asia. Both states maintain a key economic and strategic relation, but this has not reduced tensions in the area, not only between both countries but also the PRC's relations with its neighbours in Asia. Despite its rhetoric about China's "Pacific Rising", this apparent change in its posture and an unprecedented military budget is creating an increasing dilemma among Asian states: Is the PRC seeking for security or is it a revisionist state searching to change the regional status quo? In this sense, US policy seems to seek a strategic scenario that "guides" the possible Chinese strategic options in a constructive way, avoiding a new Containment policy. Thus, thanks to the most important diplomatic and military developments in decades, the US is trying to reassure its Asian allies and carrying out a military redeployment according to this vision.