ting the United States. The fear seems not unfounded. China has intensified its territorial claims, from island disputes with Japan to vast areas of the South China Sea. Xi frequently inspects People’s Liber- ation Army forces, especially naval fleets, exhorting China’s military to “get ready to fight and to win war

s, and here there are two major areas. One is President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington. This has been a very tense time in Sino-US relations: South China Sea, cybersecurity, human rights, lots of issues. But what this economic uncertainty and volatility will do - I hope - is to make both presidents focus o

of American companies being given access to Chinese markets. Congressional concern rose over Beijing’s continued expansion into and militarization of the South China Sea; the predatory lending practices that can be involved in President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative; and Beijing’s continued persecuti

nge in the style, content and direction of China’s international policy approach. China worked overtime in 2014-16 to expand its military position in the South China Sea with a rapid program of island reclamation. China took the idea of the New Silk Road and turned it into a multi- trillion dollar trade, investment, i

rophecy and intent once China could establish parity or surpass Soviet military and economic might.iii As the world's attention is focused on China's South China Sea claims, an asymmetrical war is also being conducted by the PRC to achieve Mongolian assimilation. Russian influence is being marginalized, as are Mon

ster General Liang Guanglie was telling the Shangri-la Dialogue on June 3 in Singapore that "China is committed to maintaining peace and stability in the South China Sea" and that "China stood by" the DOC, news media were reporting that on May 26 a Vietnamese survey ship operating on its claimed continental shelf had

of China throughout its history. The debate over the East China Sea ADIZ, which China established in November, can al

HT_014534 --- PAGE BREAK --- Korea’s nuclear program and missile launches go unchecked. There is rising risk of military incidents—or accidents—in the South China Sea and across the Taiwan Strait. China is the most likely source of global economic shocks over the next two to three years. The country’s leadership c

here. RLK: But there's more complexity with Myanmar because Myanmar an ASEAN country and China has great political interest in ASEAN, particularly in the South China Sea where Vietnam, potentially Indonesia, Philippines (for a time), were all claimants against China, and China needs support in that IMPACT ROBERT LAWRE