US Strategic Partnership with Japan and South Korea: Its Challenges for China

Abstract

The world is an entity filled with various power behavior of states. Within that entity, the United States’ dominance is visible worldwide. In this unipolar world with the United States, the rise of China tries to embrace whole international attraction based on its foreign policy. In the East Asian region, the United States has already expanded its grand strategy based on its strategic partnership with Japan and South Korea. The situation of holding hands among these powers is being turned to another pathway based on the activities implemented by the rise of China. Hence, the East Asia has become a full of extra ordinaries with ongoing strategic partnerships among these states. The research is based on qualitative and quantitative research approach and secondary data indicates the U.S. strategic partnerships with Japan and South Korea and China’s responses to it. The research findings conclude that the United States has gained a powerful position in relations with Japan and South Korea and the attitudes of China’s use of power has made a different shadow towards Japan and South Korea in order to response to the United States’ threat. Finally, China’s response faced with challenges of the U.S. strategic partnership with Japan and South Korea is expected to be analyzed under descriptive analysis