The Adjustment of the United States'Strategy in the Middle East:Environment Shaping and Order Rebuilding
Since the end of the Cold War,successive US governments have continued to adjust their Middle East strategy,which is closely related to the changes in the global pattern,the challenges faced by the US global strategy,and the geopolitical changes in the Middle East.The essence of US Middle East strategy is to maintain the US hegemony in the Middle East and to serve and obey the US global strategy.For now,shaping the strategic environment at the global and regional levels in order to"compete with China and limit Russia"is the central task of the Biden administration in promoting strategic competition among great powers.Specifically in the Middle East,due to the continuous strategic contraction of the United States from the Middle East in the past decade,the dominant position of the United States in the Middle East has been seriously weakened,and the"Middle East in the post-American era"has begun to emerge.China and Russia,regarded by the United States as its main global competitors,as well as the main regional challenger Iran,are expanding their influence in the Middle East,while the major allies and partners of the United States in the region are increasingly worried about the United States leaving the Middle East,and the strategic autonomy characterized by separation from the United States is constantly developing.To this end,the United States has established a new Middle East strategy dominated by strategic competition,and for the first time,the main goal of the Middle East strategy is to contain the influence of China and Russia in the Middle East.The strategy takes rebuilding US regional leadership,reshaping regional rules,rebuilding US-regional Allies and partnerships,rebuilding the regional security system,and reshaping regional supply chains and value chains as its main contents,and reshaping the strategic environment in the Middle East to prevent China and Russia from"filling the power vacuum"as its main task.The United States is shaping the strategic environment in the Middle East and promoting strategic competition among major powers in order to maintain the American-led Middle East order formed in the past three decades.The series of measures introduced by the US may seem new,but in essence,it is"old wine in new bottle",with obvious Cold War mentality,bloc politics and zero-sum game color,which is not conducive to the development and stability of the Middle East,and it is doomed to be difficult to achieve its strategic goals.
US Middle East strategyBiden Administrationstrategic competitionenvironment shapingMiddle East order
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