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The United-States have recently starting "pivoting" their large military power towards the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean in an obvious move to counter their Chinese rival. Yet, while the United-States have been busy hunting ghosts in the Middle-East for next to a decade, Beijing made significant gains in the region and was able to enforce an assertive foreign policy without much interference. The most dramatic initiative, according to western media, is the progressive set up of a "string" of military bases for the PLA Navyalong the sea line of China and the Indian Ocean that would effectively lock up the PRC's control over today's most important trade routes while also paralyzing their opponent in a manner somewhat similar to Kissinger's famous "go game" analogy.

Today, the region is divided between China's clear sphere of influence (including Cambodia and Laos PDR, clear Chinese satellites, but also now Sri Lanka), its traditional rivals (which are increasingly compromising with the People's Republic, especially South Korea) and the disputed states. Among those are the critical "in play" states that are trying to bid their allegiance to either China or the United-States. Despite sometimes confrontational displays with the People's Republic, those countries do not hesitate to engage economically with it, while also welcoming its infrastructural and economical investment. Eventually, there is also the case of the "neutral" states that seem intent on keeping all their cards in their hand while watching the great powers wear each other down. Those states are mostly developed (Thailand, Malaysia), but Bangladesh is increasingly taking the same path.

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Donna Miles of the American Forces Press Service writes in the above-linked article about Navy Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, who assumed command of Pacom (US Pacific Command) in March of this year.

Admiral Locklear takes command at a time when the US has announced a strategic pivot toward what may become a Pacific-centered world order.

In this article there are several telling quotes from the admiral regarding his understanding of recently formulated strategic guidance that would implement that above-mentioned strategic pivot. 

The Pacific Ocean perfectly exemplifies a geographically-defined region that is not a nation-state such as I discussed in Regionalism as a Strategic Trend. The very idea of a strategic pivot toward the Pacific region is one of the many signs that will emerge that will signal a shift from an Atlantic-centered world to a Pacific-centered world that I discussed in the same post.

Such a shift constitutes the strategic equivalent to the principles of war known as mass (or concentration of forces) and economy of forces: focus your resources where they are most needed, while minimizing your resources where they are least needed. But even as you pursue these eminently rational strategic re-alignments, your strategic rivals will be looking to do the same by pursuing a complementary strategy.