On the weekend of November 23, Beijing announced the establishment of a new Air Defense Identification Zone. Covering a large swath of the East China Sea, the move was intended to assert China’s control over disputed islands in the region, and predictably antagonized Beijing’s relations with Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. The move also prompted escalated tensions with the
Xi Jinping’s trip to Moscow earlier this week, his first journey abroad as China’s new Head of State, has raised interesting questions about China’s ambitions in Asia, and coupled with Washington’s “pivot to Asia” is resurrecting the specter of a strategic standoff between Southern and Northern Asia around the world’s two leading superpowers. How realistic is this vision?
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