Soft Way to Consolidate Hard Power: China’s New ‘Low Profile' Strategy Orientation

China learnt in 2010 that continued strategic tension with the United States provides less advantage to China’s vital interests. For consolidating a peaceful development environment, China began to reshape its rising strategy of “Low Profile with a new identity of an emerging power”. China might not satisfy the US hegemony profile, however, China is not certain nowadays that it can overcome its strategic limits and diplomatic isolation in East Asia. A soft way of suppressing American influence on the international institutions’ rule-making will be China’s main focus, while continuous military research investment will guarantee its regional military deterrence over the US forces. A hegemonic war is engaging the field of international institutions, but not in the battlefield, as a realist presumption.