'Pivoting' To Prop Up U.S. Alliances, Obama's Asian Trip Will Not Serve U.S. Interests

Steve Harner
Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenharner/2014/04/10/strengthening-a-discordant-security-status-quo-obamas-asian-trip-will-not-serve-u-s-interests/
It is a fact that no objective observer can deny:  the rise of China over the past 30 years is an epochal development that has fundamentally altered global economics and politics.
Realism, and pursuit of American national interests, dictates that the aim of U.S. policy should be to take maximum advantage of China’s rise, and adjust other relationships as necessary to this objective.
Yet, what we have saw during the first Obama administration term, and continue to see during the second, is an economic, political, and defense policy toward Asia fundamentally denies, if it does not actually challenge, China’s rise.