ternational aggression by simply outlawing war. Less than two years after the pact entered into force in 1929, one of the signatories, Japan, invaded Manchuria. The world “community’—that is, the rest of the treaty parties—did nothing. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023491 --- PAGE BREAK --- 6 Other signatories followe

. Kaplan writes that China's ability to project power into the Pacific is made possible by its dominance over its Central Asian land borders, "from Manchuria counterclockwise around to Tibet." He explains: "Merely by going to sea in the manner that it is, China demonstrates its favorable position on the

ld remain open to working with each, yet these initiatives also hide an obstacle in the path to partnership. Set when Russia acquired a portion of Manchuria in the nineteenth century, a demographic time-bomb may bring any marriage of convenience to an unhappy end. In the grand scope of Chinese history,