“Although the dispute over the sovereignty of the eight islets is decades old now, Beijing’s more aggressive posture has gone hand-in-hand with the growth in China’s military and maritime capabilities. And Chinese ambitions have been aided and abetted by a general failure of successive American administrations to respond effectively to the shifting balance of power in Asia—a problem compounded by the Obama White House’s seeming indifference to ensuring its own plans for rebalancing in the region are not undone by the massive cuts to defense imposed by the Budget Control Act.” -Gary Schmitt, AHS speaker
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:51:44 +0000
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