Conceived as a long-overdue shift in resources and attention from wars and other urgent challenges in the Middle East toward the vast expanse of opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, America’s much-vaunted strategic pivot immediately ran into a gauntlet of unintended consequences (the handmaidens of inconsistent and poorly articulated policy).
虽然被外界视为资源和注意力从中东战争和其他紧迫挑战向亚太地区无限机遇的期待已久的转移，但美国备受赞誉的新战略支点立即引发了意想不到的后果（这是政策不连贯且表述不清晰的必然结果）。