ABSTRACT
This paper aims to analyze how the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) affects the existence of United States power in the Asia Pacific. The BRI program initiated by China's strategy in realizing The Rise Peace of China in international relations. The embodiment of China's rise is applied in expansive policies through expanding the scope of economic cooperation with countries in the Asia Pacific. By this project, China's expansion had a major influence on the existence of the United States in the Asia Pacific Region. Based on this point of view, BRI policies are considered to be challengers and have the opportunity to shift the United States both economically, militarily and politically. This research uses Power Transition theory to explain the influence of BRI on the existence of the United States by emphasizing two basic foundations they are dominant and challenger power. Dominant power refers to the existence of the United States in the region and Challenger is China BRI policy. The result of this study is that BRI has a strong influence on the declining influence of the United States in the Asia Pacific. Throughout the BRI policies, indirectly becomes a means of disseminating influence and has the potential to shift the position of the United States in the Asia Pacific.
