Roiling the waters : why the United States needs to stop playing peacemaker and start makin China uncomfortable / by Elbridge Colby and Ely Ratner
Subject(s): In: Foreign Policy . -- nº 204 (Jan - Feb. 2014)Scope and content: Although officials on both sides of the Pacific are publicly loath to add fuel to the fire, it is increasingly clear that China's recent regional provocations are the result of more than just knee-jerk reactions or bureaucratic malfunctions over long-forgotten borders or arcane historical ownership. Beijing's far-reaching claims in the East and South China seas -- and coercive efforts to intimidate neighbors -- have unsettled countries from Vietnam to the Philippines to Japan because they amount to an expansionist strategy, with profound implications for U.S. power and regional security.Revista R0170 (MAEC- Biblioteca Central)
Although officials on both sides of the Pacific are publicly loath to add fuel to the fire, it is increasingly clear that China's recent regional provocations are the result of more than just knee-jerk reactions or bureaucratic malfunctions over long-forgotten borders or arcane historical ownership. Beijing's far-reaching claims in the East and South China seas -- and coercive efforts to intimidate neighbors -- have unsettled countries from Vietnam to the Philippines to Japan because they amount to an expansionist strategy, with profound implications for U.S. power and regional security.