USA's Pivot to Asia and China's Global Rebalancing through BRI

Abstract

Since the announcement of "US pivot to Asia" and "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI), both remained a center of debate in international politics, both regional and global, policymaking, academia, news both print and electronic media. Many people, including academic experts, researchers, have written about the USA pivot to Asia and BRI initiative from different perspectives. This research paper is an attempt to bring the understanding of the complexity of networked relationships between the two major powers, the US and China. Moreover, attempts have been made to explore the notion of BRI and AIIB that whether it will be prone or not towards the US "Pivot to Asia" policy, especially in the vast Indo Pacific region. The paper comprises of three parts; the first part of the paper is an introductory one which is mainly focused on the brief explanation of the USA pivot to Asia and the BRI project of China. Secondly, the main body of the paper contains the significance of the Indo-Pacific region and illustrates that how the region has been using as a centre for great power politics? Why the US maximize its sphere of influence, and how China respond to the US interplay? Where does ASEAN stand in the interplay of great power play in the region? In the final part, the whole research work has concluded.