If you haven’t been watching goings on in the Asia-Pacific region of late, you are currently missing one of the greatest geopolitical balancing acts on Earth. It is there, in a great arc of territory running east from the India-Pakistan border to Southeast Asia, encompassing the vast Indonesian archipelago and Australia before curving northward to
The Great Trans-Pacific Arms Race
As China builds another aircraft carrier and the U.S. adjusts its policy accordingly, geopolitical intrigue threatens to devolve into a new Cold War.