Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that the country's military redeployment in the Asia-Pacific region is not aimed at containing China.

After attending the Shangri-La Dialogue at Singapore together with the US defense secretary, Leon Panetta, Dempsey returned to the United States for a press conference on Thursday.

The "Asia" policy, Dempsey said, is designed to deal with strategic challenges of the future that are migrating to the region. "By virtue of the size foakleys wind jacket, scope and scale of populations and economies in the Asia-Pacific, the United States will seek engagement in the region with the intent of avoiding confrontation," he said, adding, "I assured anyone that chose to ask me the question, our new strategy and our rebalancing to the Pacific is not intended to contain China."

The strategy focuses on "three mores" - more attention, more engagement and more quality, Dempsey said. While more advanced ships, fifth-generation fighters and missile defense systems are to be deployed to the region, the US military presence in the Asia-Pacific is more on a rotational basis, he said.

Dempsey also emphasized the importance of cooperation between China and US to bring security and stability to the region. "We do have a relationship with China, and we certainly aspire to increase that relationship over time," he said.