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102 China Int'l Stud. 79 (2023)
The US Alliance Strategy: Development, Adjustment and Dilemma

handle is hein.journals/chintersd102 and id is 81 raw text is: The US Alliance Strategy: Development, Adjustment and Dilemma Wang Yinghui T he alliance system has been an important strategic asset of the United States for a long time. American strategic guru Zbigniew Brzezinski pointed out in his book The Grand Chessboard. American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives that American global supremacy is buttressed by an elaborate system of alliances and coalitions that span the globe. As an important part of the American global strategy, the alliance system has played an indispensable role throughout US history, from its founding to developing and maintaining its hegemony. The US has used it to contain rivals, control allies, expand regional influence, maintain its global dominance, and strategically serve as a key promoter to maintain US global hegemony. Under the current background of the US resuming major-power competition and the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the United States is going through profound adjustments of its alliance strategy, rearranging its strategic layout targeting China and Russia as threats, and reintegrating the Asia-Pacific and the transatlantic alliance systems, in an attempt to establish a US-led exclusive, connected, and cross-board alliance that contains China in every possible way. However, the US alliance strategy is also restrained by a number of internal and external factors such as geo-economic realities, strategic culture, and intra-alliance tensions. Wang Yinghui is Professor at the School of National Security, National Defense University of China. The article was originally published in Chinese in Asia-Pacific Security and Maritime Affairs, No.4, 2023. 1 Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (Chinese edition), China Institute of International Studies, trans., Beijing: The People's Publishing House, 1998, p.36. The US Alliance Strategy: Development, Adjustment and Dilemma September/October 2023 79

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