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The New Face of U.S.-China Relations: “Strategic Reassurance” or Old-Fashioned Rollback?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Peter Lee
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The Obama administration took office in 2009 determined to move beyond might-makes-right-makes-might unilateralism of the Bush years, and reassert America's global influence as the most principled and powerful guarantor of rule-based multilateralism.

With respect to China, this approach was presented as a doctrine of “strategic reassurance”.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 29 , July 2010 , e1
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