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Offshore balancing
![Offshore Balancing: A Grand Strategy for the China Dream Offshore Balancing: A Grand Strategy for the China Dream](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-the-chinese-national-flag-1752046_1280.jpg)
Offshore Balancing: A Grand Strategy for the China Dream
By Andrew Latham
Xi Jinping seems to have settled on a grand strategy for a risen China.
![What Would a Pluralist US Asia Policy Look Like? What Would a Pluralist US Asia Policy Look Like?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_17314491232939.jpg)
What Would a Pluralist US Asia Policy Look Like?
By Prashanth Parameswaran
While the concept may help soothe worries of a bipolar framing of U.S.-China rivalry, whether it can be put into practice remains to be seen.
![The Political Perils of Offshore Balancing The Political Perils of Offshore Balancing](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-10-21_07-25-10.jpg)
The Political Perils of Offshore Balancing
By Chris Mclachlan
Moving U.S. forces out of range of Chinese threats could create more problems than it solves.
![The US Can't Outsource Warfighting The US Can't Outsource Warfighting](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-10-17_08-10-01.jpg)
The US Can't Outsource Warfighting
By James R. Holmes
Offshore powers have long tried to get continental powers to fight their wars. It's rarely worked.
![How Much Do Strategic Thinkers Affect US Policy Anyway? How Much Do Strategic Thinkers Affect US Policy Anyway?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-02-12_17-42-03.jpg)
How Much Do Strategic Thinkers Affect US Policy Anyway?
By Robert Farley
Foreign policy sometimes reflects what strategic thinkers recommend, but that might be coincidence.
![Slouching Toward Offshore Balancing Slouching Toward Offshore Balancing](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-02-09_14-48-52.jpg)
Slouching Toward Offshore Balancing
By James R. Holmes
With America facing fiscal constraints, are lawmakers are absentmindedly adopting offshore balancing?
![Offshore Engagement: The Right U.S. Strategy for Asia Offshore Engagement: The Right U.S. Strategy for Asia](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/sizes/thumbnail/US_Navy_040625-N-9769P-245_Ships_from_the_United_States_and_Canada_navigate_around_the_aircraft_carrier_USS_John_C._Stennis_CVN_74_while_underway_in_the_Pacific_Ocean_during_a_multi-national_photo_exercise.jpg)
Offshore Engagement: The Right U.S. Strategy for Asia
Offshore engagement presents a middle ground between offshore balancing and deep commitment.
![Hard Times for Offshore Balancing in Philippines Hard Times for Offshore Balancing in Philippines](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/sizes/thumbnail/18924_52809dd6e6b45.jpg)
Hard Times for Offshore Balancing in Philippines
The Philippines’ wishful thinking about the South China Sea is becoming dangerous.
![History Lesson: The Battle of Java Sea History Lesson: The Battle of Java Sea](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/sizes/thumbnail/11965_525381ea4c4dd.jpg)
History Lesson: The Battle of Java Sea
On the heels of Pearl Harbor, Allied forces were handed a crushing defeat by the Japanese. The battle has lessons for today’s military planners.
![Is Asia’s Balance of Power Self-Enforcing? Is Asia’s Balance of Power Self-Enforcing?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/sizes/thumbnail/6621_5243afa560ab4.jpg)
Is Asia’s Balance of Power Self-Enforcing?
What history says about such a concept seems telling. Will the Asia-Pacific be any different?
![World War II: No Model for Contemporary U.S. Strategy World War II: No Model for Contemporary U.S. Strategy](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/sizes/thumbnail/6790_5243b0c8a2db5.jpg)
World War II: No Model for Contemporary U.S. Strategy
“If the United States wants to remain a balancer in Eurasia, better to do it from forward staging bases…”
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