The first leg of the offensive was the idea of the “Indo-Pacific” region, which Clinton developed a year ago and followed up this year with an essay called “America’s Pacific Century.” There, she defines the new region of US strategic engagement as “stretching from the Indian subcontinent to the western shores of the Americas.”
太平洋攻势的第一条腿是“印度-太平洋”地区思想，由希拉里于一年前提出，并在今年以一篇题为《美国的太平洋世纪》（America’s Pacific Century）的文章为其造势。在这篇文章中，希拉里将这一新的美国战略版图定义为“从印度次大陆到美国西海岸”。