The United States should tell China exactly where its red line is in the Asia-Pacific region to prevent a direct war between the two nations, according to Harry White, a defense expert from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
In an article written for the Washington-based National Interest magazine, White said that US president Barack Obama's rebalancing strategy in the Asia-Pacific is failing because Washington never told China what red lines will trigger a direct confrontation between the two nuclear powers. "So far, Obama has tried to manage Beijing by taking a middle road between reassurance and deterrence. Too soft an approach would invite revisionism, goes the line, and being too assertive would accelerate the trend towards a deeply adversarial relationship," White said.
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