BEIJING ¨C The Silk Road, an obscure Kazakh-inspired security forum and a $50 billion Asian infrastructure bank are just some of the disparate elements in an evolving Chinese strategy to try to counter Washington¡¯s ¡°pivot¡± to the region.
While Chinese leaders have not given the government¡¯s growing list of initiatives a label or said they had an overall purpose, Chinese experts and diplomats said Beijing appeared set on shaping Asia¡¯s security and financial architecture more to its liking.
¡°China is trying to work out its own counterbalance strategy,¡± said Sun Zhe, director of the Centre for U.S.-China Relations at Beijing¡¯s Tsinghua University and who has advised China¡¯s government on its foreign policy.
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