According to studies of "hedging" strategies, states will adopt policies that feature a mixture of "balancing" and "cooperation" when they suffer an uncertain situation which interlocks threats and benefits. Empirical cases have been focused on the behavioral patterns of small or middle sized states. The strategies of "hedging" adopted by great powers, however, have been ignored in the existing literature. This study intends to clarify the connotation, definition and behavioral patterns of "hedging" by reviewing related literature, and using it as a means to examine U.S.-China strategic "coopetition" in the Asia-Pacific, with an aim to explore how the concept of "hedging" can help to explain the interaction between great powers and help to make foreign policy in Taiwan.