The main purpose of widening the view on the United States is to know more clearly about the strategies and tactics that the US adopts in its process of building a unipolar world.

　　According to Dr. Lu Dehong, American issue expert, since it's founding more than 200 years ago, the United States started or took part in more than 240 wars and foreign military operations. Hence it can be said that it is the wars that have made what the US is today.

　　Ceaselessly looking for enemies, ceaselessly playing up crises, and ceaselessly sending out troops for military actions have become the core and essence of American military culture and strategic thinking.

　　Since the end of the Cold War, the US has been looking for enemies in order to build a unipolar world and to prevent the emergence of a nation similar to the former Soviet Union in the world. For this purpose, the US needs to create a parity situation among different regions so that different regions will hold up and restrict each other.

　　In the early period of the 21st century, the US pursues regional parity strategy mainly in Asia, because Japan, Russia, India or China in Asia, anyone of them might become a polar in the future multi-polar world.

　　In accordance with the analyses, the current US-Japan alliance is an alliance by which the US holds Japan in its arms. In order to pursue balance of power in Asia, the US needs to let Japan, that is under its effective control, play a maximum role.

　　Currently, India's position has been on steady rise in the strategic pattern of major powers. The US attempts to use India as a chip to contain China. In case China slows down its pace of development, India will replace China to bear the pressure of hegemony.

　　Russia is a major power that will rejuvenate itself sooner or later. It is precisely because of this, right after realizing NATO's eastern expansion and sending its troops to station in central Asia, the US poked its nose into the general election in Ukraine, and pushed ahead with "color revolution" in central Asian countries.

　　Meanwhile, China's development has attracted worldwide attention, and the voice that China is rejuvenating and rising has grown louder both in China and in the world. Hence, China has been regarded as a "stand-out country" in Asia.

　　As mentioned above, the American's "regional parity" strategy is aimed at making use of the contradictions to realize the check and balance among major regional powers and impeding the rise of major powers. Hence, the future that lies before us is a coexistence of opportunities and crises, and crises will generate from opportunities. Development and challenges exist side by side, and challenges will be brought about by development. In the face of such a situation, we cannot but develop and we must bravely rise to challenges.

　　In order to build a unipolar world, the US has hit out everywhere, resulting in its ever-growing battlefront and accumulating more and more contradictions. If things go on like this, the US will eventually prove to be true an old Chinese saying: Big ones have their own troubles. Biting off more than one can chew, and the old will certainly decline.

　　By Li Bingyan

　　(June 8, PLA Daily)