China’s Master Plan: A Global Military Threat
From the East China Sea to Africa, Beijing is flexing its muscles.
Only an exercise, for now.
Photographer: Andy Wong/Getty Images
(This is the first in a series of columns on China's effort to supplant the U.S. as the world's pre-eminent geopolitical power. Read the second part here: Exporting an Ideology | A Worldwide Web of Institutions)
I wrote a column recently about how a longstanding assumption of America’s China policy -- that economic integration between the two countries is an unalloyed good -- has now been overtaken by events. But this isn’t the only area in which China’s rise is forcing a re-evaluation of old beliefs.
Now, as the first in a series of columns on this phenomenon that Bloomberg Opinion will publish in the coming days, I'll delve into another issue with enormous implications for U.S.-China relations and American interests: the rise of China as a more globally oriented military power.