For all of the hype that has accompanied the US “pivot” to Asia – announced by President Barack Obama in the Australian Parliament in November 2011 – the delicate balances involved in this basic architecture have changed little for decades. But now Japan, with overt support from Australia in particular, seems determined to change the balance by establishing, as a counterweight to China, a much denser alliance-type relationship with selected partners.
美国在大肆宣传其“转向”亚洲的决定——2011年11月奥巴马总统在澳大利亚议会宣布了这一政策——但这一基本构架对应的精巧平衡已经几十年没有改变。但如今，日本在（尤其是）澳大利亚的公开支持下决定改变这一平衡，与精心选择的伙伴建立更加紧密的联盟，以制衡中国。