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Obama administration's shift of US foreign policy priority to the Asia-Pacific region

U.S. President Barack Obama's East Asia Strategy (–), also known as the Pivot to Asia, represented a significant shift in the foreign policy of the United States since the s.

It shifted the country's focus away from the Middle Eastern and European sphere and allowed it to invest heavily and build relationships in East Asian and Southeast Asian countries, especially countries which are in close proximity to the People's Republic of China (PRC) either economically, geographically or politically to counter its rise as a rival potential superpower.^[1]

Additional focus was placed on the region with the Obama administration's "Pivot to East Asia" regional strategy,^[2] whose key areas of actions are: "strengthening bilateral security alliances; deepening our working relationships with emerging powers, including with