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Mearsheimer: US 'pivot to Asia' was a pretence to contain China

The US "pivot to Asia" was announced in 2011 but only became US foreign policy once the unipolar moment gave way to multipolarity, according to John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago and the architect of offensive realism. The author of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics doesn't mince his words: China was a great power by 2017 and the "pivot to Asia" fig leaf was stripped away.

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