Preserving the Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific Region.

AuthorSempa, Francis P.
PositionBrief article

Preserving the Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific Region

By Thomas Donilon, Council on Foreign Relations Fellow

Text: http://www.cfr.org/china/keynote-address-obama-china-preservingrebalance/p33778

Thomas Donilon of the Council on Foreign Relations spoke recently at the Brookings Institution about the Obama Administration's rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region. He called it "the most important geopolitical initiative of Obama's presidency.

The region contains half the world's people and nearly 60 percent of global GDP. Obama's rebalance, he stated, involves each element of U.S. national power.

Donilon focused his remarks on three principal foundations for the rebalance: alliances (most notable our alliances with Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines)...

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