Hal Brands, Columnist

China Hasn't Won the Pacific (Unless You Think It Has)

A rising school of thought among allies holds that the U.S. can't compete with Beijing's economic and military expansion.

January 5, 2018 at 1:00 PM UTC

By Hal Brands

Hal Brands is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

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Is China destined to dominate the Asia-Pacific? Among U.S. allies and partners in the region, there seems to be a growing doubt that America can win the ongoing competition for influence with China, and that they must begin preparing for a regional order headed by Beijing. The challenge for America, then, is to ensure that this feeling of strategic fatalism doesn’t become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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