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By James R. Holmes
Last week, American Enterprise Institute analyst Dan Blumenthal published a report on Asian Alliances in the 21st Century in conjunction with a team from the Washington-based Project 2049 Institute. The report argues that there’s little alternative to US primacy in Asia, despite impending defence cutbacks that threaten to attenuate US diplomatic influence in the region. No single power or coalition appears capable of, or interested in, assuming custodianship of the ‘commons,’ the international waters and skies on which the globalised system of trade and commerce depends. Rising China ‘is neither a candidate for the kind of benign hegemonic rule that others would find legitimate, not much interested in aiding Washington in shouldering global responsibilities’. Quite the opposite. Beijing is amassing ‘anti-access’ capabilities precisely to grant itself the option of keeping US reinforcements out of the Western Pacific.
Read the full story at The Diplomat