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The article discusses the military and strategic role of China within the broader region of East Asia. The authors examine the topic from the perspectives of the United States on the one hand and of Germany and European Union (EU) on the other. Issues considered include American geopolitical thinking about China, as advanced by scholars Samuel P. Huntington, George Friedman, and Henry Kissinger, for example, the pivot of U.S. security interests to the Pacific region in the 21st century, and Germany's assessment of China's foreign policy as pragmatic.