Strategic competition between China and the United States ha


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Strategic competition between China and the United States has intensified since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, resulting in China’s neighbors adjusting their policies toward China and the security situation in China’s neighborhood undergoing changes. The US’ Indo-Pacific strategy is giving shape to alliances and partnerships to contain China’s development. Over the past few years, the US strategy has been constantly upgrading and expanding, with the Quad-an informal strategic grouping of the US, India, Australia and Japan-as its main coordination platform. To create an extended version of the Quad framework, in March 2020 the US invited New Zealand, the Republic...