Chapter Cooperation or Confrontation? Assessing the American ‘Pivot’ to Asia in Context – Is It a Western ‘Neo-Liberealism’ Response to China’s New ‘Open Door’ Approach to Europe?

Much attention has surrounded ‘America’s Pivot to Asia’, hyped in fanfare, castigated by China, welcomed by smaller Asian states in the context of wishful maritime security, all involving an air and naval pivot to Asia by the United States. Less attention has focused on a Western economic pivot to A...

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description Much attention has surrounded ‘America’s Pivot to Asia’, hyped in fanfare, castigated by China, welcomed by smaller Asian states in the context of wishful maritime security, all involving an air and naval pivot to Asia by the United States. Less attention has focused on a Western economic pivot to Asia, a significant American financial presence, including World Bank (WB) cooperation under American leadership with the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) under Chinese leadership. Although the AIIB stands to become theoretically an antithesis of the WB, recently the AIIB changed course quietly, grounding its funding in US dollars instead of Chinese RenMinBi, itself borrowing from the WB to support derivative loans from the AIIB to developing nations! This chapter addresses the significance of what appears facially to be a ‘carrot and stick’ approach, focusing particularly on opportunities for Sino-American and Sino-European cooperation instead of confrontation, then forecasting ways such cooperation will promote progressive military de-escalation. Is this financial cooperation a form of 21st century ‘Dollar Diplomacy’ that will result in an American military pivot away from Asia? If so, it contains some hallmarks of what some might consider ‘Structural Liberalism’ or neo-liberalism in a neo-realist package, possibly to be labeled ‘neo-liberealism’.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1546552025-03-07T13:28:56Z Chapter Cooperation or Confrontation? Assessing the American ‘Pivot’ to Asia in Context – Is It a Western ‘Neo-Liberealism’ Response to China’s New ‘Open Door’ Approach to Europe? Jones, David A. Chinese foreign policy women’s economy regional security nuclear tests military reform economic cooperation image of China Much attention has surrounded ‘America’s Pivot to Asia’, hyped in fanfare, castigated by China, welcomed by smaller Asian states in the context of wishful maritime security, all involving an air and naval pivot to Asia by the United States. Less attention has focused on a Western economic pivot to Asia, a significant American financial presence, including World Bank (WB) cooperation under American leadership with the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) under Chinese leadership. Although the AIIB stands to become theoretically an antithesis of the WB, recently the AIIB changed course quietly, grounding its funding in US dollars instead of Chinese RenMinBi, itself borrowing from the WB to support derivative loans from the AIIB to developing nations! This chapter addresses the significance of what appears facially to be a ‘carrot and stick’ approach, focusing particularly on opportunities for Sino-American and Sino-European cooperation instead of confrontation, then forecasting ways such cooperation will promote progressive military de-escalation. Is this financial cooperation a form of 21st century ‘Dollar Diplomacy’ that will result in an American military pivot away from Asia? If so, it contains some hallmarks of what some might consider ‘Structural Liberalism’ or neo-liberalism in a neo-realist package, possibly to be labeled ‘neo-liberealism’. 2025-03-07T13:28:55Z 2025-03-07T13:28:55Z 2017 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788380887596_80 9788380887596 9788380887589 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/154655 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/1079 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8088-758-9.10 10.18778/8088-758-9.10 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788380887596 9788380887589 155-173 open access
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Jones, David A.
Chapter Cooperation or Confrontation? Assessing the American ‘Pivot’ to Asia in Context – Is It a Western ‘Neo-Liberealism’ Response to China’s New ‘Open Door’ Approach to Europe?
title Chapter Cooperation or Confrontation? Assessing the American ‘Pivot’ to Asia in Context – Is It a Western ‘Neo-Liberealism’ Response to China’s New ‘Open Door’ Approach to Europe?
title_full Chapter Cooperation or Confrontation? Assessing the American ‘Pivot’ to Asia in Context – Is It a Western ‘Neo-Liberealism’ Response to China’s New ‘Open Door’ Approach to Europe?
title_fullStr Chapter Cooperation or Confrontation? Assessing the American ‘Pivot’ to Asia in Context – Is It a Western ‘Neo-Liberealism’ Response to China’s New ‘Open Door’ Approach to Europe?
title_full_unstemmed Chapter Cooperation or Confrontation? Assessing the American ‘Pivot’ to Asia in Context – Is It a Western ‘Neo-Liberealism’ Response to China’s New ‘Open Door’ Approach to Europe?
title_short Chapter Cooperation or Confrontation? Assessing the American ‘Pivot’ to Asia in Context – Is It a Western ‘Neo-Liberealism’ Response to China’s New ‘Open Door’ Approach to Europe?
title_sort chapter cooperation or confrontation assessing the american pivot to asia in context is it a western neo liberealism response to china s new open door approach to europe
topic Chinese foreign policy
women’s economy
regional security
nuclear tests
military reform
economic cooperation
image of China
topic_facet Chinese foreign policy
women’s economy
regional security
nuclear tests
military reform
economic cooperation
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