President Barrack Obama’s last Asia Pivot trip turning out to be disaster

U.S. President Barrack Obama’s one of the signature policies have been ‘Asia-Pacific Pivot’, which was targeted to increase the influence of America in the region to prevent China’s expansion desire. But President Obama’s final trip to the region shows that after years of the first announcement of the strategy, its effect remains fragmentary.

While the United States is somewhat successful in increasing its military presence in the region, which was one of the pillars of the strategy but other strategies like improving relations with emerging power, economic statecraft, and support for universal values are yet to see the success.

Few of the diplomatic and economic evidence should speak for the above argument. The first major incident happened with the newly elected, Philippines’ president Duterte, who called President Barrack Obama, a “Son of a bitch” when a reporter asked a question. He later apologized and explained that it was due to continuous pressure from the U.S. officials over his war against drugs, in which 2000 people have died. Obama cancelled a meeting with Duterte.

The second one was a colder reception from China when the President arrived for G20. All global leaders got red carpeted welcome but Obama. It has been allegedly called a diplomatic rebuke. The final one was a picture that shows, President Obama and Russian President Putin exchanging death stare pointing to the worsened relations with Russia.

In addition to the above diplomatic spats, Obama couldn’t gather a broad consensus for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, which has been the cornerstone of the whole strategy.