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The Upside of US-Chinese Strategic Competition Building a New Coexistent Security Architecture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 June 2025
This chapter conducts an in-depth examination of the US-China institutional competition within the security suborder in the Asia-Pacific region. It offers a comprehensive analysis of two distinct rounds of institutional balancing between the United States and China, which involve key forums like the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD), Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), and ASEAN Defense Ministerial Meeting (ADMM)-Plus, spanning the post-Cold War era. Our argument suggests that this robust rivalry in institutional balancing between the United States and China has given rise to a dynamic security architecture within the Asia-Pacific region. Within this framework, bilateralism, minilateralism, and multilateralism coexist and intersect, resulting in a complex and nuanced security architecture.
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