"pivot policy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to a strategy that an organization or government has put into place to change directions in response to changing circumstances. For example, "As the pandemic forced everyone into quarantine, the government implemented a pivot policy to help workers who were laid off."
Trump's lack of concise policy on China has led governments in south-east Asia to wonder if they should still look the US as a counterweight to Beijing if he wins and abandons the "pivot" policy.
The authors' prescription for dealing with the country's intelligence problems is highly reductive — "Don't pivot policy or the nation's security around intelligence" — and their discussion of asymmetrical warfare is full of recycled platitudes.
Today, the opposition leader Sam Rainsy and other critics argue that the United States' current relations with the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen also have the hallmarks of political expedience: Washington's "pivot" policy in Southeast Asia is pushing the White House closer to unsavory regimes with dubious human rights records.
VIENTIANE, Laos — President Obama ended his final trip to Asia on Thursday with a brisk defense of his "Asia pivot" policy and an impatient dismissal of those who suggested his bumpy reception in the region this week augured doubts about America's long-term role.
While a "get tough" Hillary Clinton was indeed the architect of the Obama Administration's pivot to Asia, hers is now a failing pivot policy as our naval fleet continues to shrink under the Obama watch.
With the Pacific again looming as arguably America's most geostrategically important region -- hence the Obama administration's Asia-Pacific Pivot policy -- and the Navy taking the lead role, the two venerable Navy pictures, both depicting Pacific operations, have renewed relevance.
At the same time, we would have to pivot our policy in two ways.
Japan is heavily reliant on its alliance with the US, which still operates bases there and has recently announced a "pivot" in policy to focus on growing Pacific threats.
The second, coming when Congress returns from recess, is to aggressively pivot to policy announcements, from economic and women's issues to President Barack Obama's Iran deal, which will receive a vote in September.
President Obama had an opportunity to pivot his policy on the war in Afghanistan -- to focus on the still real threats of terrorism, rather than on failed wars of occupation with massive numbers of troops on the ground.
Since the US declared its Pivot to Asia policy, the Philippines' foreign policy towards China has become assertive and sometimes appears reckless with some military adventures against Chinese maritime patrols and naval ships, which also further forced China to take a tougher foreign policy against the Philippines.
