The pivot to Asia was planned by neocons from the 90’s onwards after the fall of the USSR

The pivot to Asia was planned by neocons from the 90’s onwards after the fall of the USSR.

The planners were a group of neo-cons and neo-neocons grouped around CNAS, originally from ONI, CSIS. They were responsible for the debacles in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and want to do the same with China/Russia. Currently 18 of these individuals from CNAS occupy top positions in the Biden administration.

Key markers:
1992 Defense Planning Guidance document (“Wolfowitz Doctrine”)
2000 PNAC: Project for a New American Century (rebranded 1992 DPG)
2000 Bush Doctrine
2008 Obama Doctrine
2009 Airsea Battle (war doctrine against China)
2011 Declaration of the Pivot
2015 “Thinking through the unthinkable”–Military-commissioned RAND study to strategize for war with China
2016 TPP issued (but cancelled by Trump)
2018 Trump’s trade war; NSS and NDS issued naming China and Russia as enemies
(“2+3 formula”: 2 revisionist powers/existential enemies (Russia, China)+ 3 smaller threats (NK, Iran, NS actors))
2019 Pompeo declares end of engagement with China, breaches Shanghai Communique
2020 Biden Doctrine: prevent China’s rise at any cost: Kurt Campbell (“the era of engagement is over”); arms and officials to Taiwan