Sailing ships around the Pacific during a crisis doesn't necessarily mean the US is waving a big stick in response to that crisis. The US sails ships around the Pacific pretty much all the time, it's only noticed when there's a crisis going on.
Sailing ships around the Pacific during a crisis doesn't necessarily mean the US is waving a big stick in response to that crisis. The US sails ships around the Pacific pretty much all the time, it's only noticed when there's a crisis going on.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”
H.L. Mencken
I wonder if you understand the nuance in the military term 'threat in being'.
Indeed the US Navy roams the Pacific, but I wonder if they do it for pleasure as Aristotle Socrates Onassis.
Growing tensions in the East China Sea
An IISS Strategic Comment; which ends:Link:http://www.iiss.org/publications/str...ast-china-sea/While it has been bubbling for many years without turning into a conflict, the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute provides a potential flashpoint for conflict that political leaderships would certainly wish to avoid.
davidbfpo
18 April 2014, The Diplomat: Chinese Strategists Reflect on the First Sino-Japanese War
China is gearing up for the 120th anniversary of the First Sino-Japanese War, which began in 1894 and ended with China’s defeat in 1895....
....To commemorate the 120th anniversary of the war, Xinhua published a special supplement to its Reference News newspaper. The supplement consisted of 30 articles by members of the People’s Liberation Army “analyzing what China can learn from its defeat” in the Sino-Japanese war.
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