"With the emergence of China as the world's second-largest economy and its concomitant renewal of (comparatively minor) territorial claims in the East China Sea and South China Sea, the stage is set for a U.S.-Chinese confrontation of a nature and on a scale not seen since before the Sino-Soviet split of 1960", Rick Rozoff, Stop Nato International.''
''In
the past decade the Pentagon has begun conducting annual multinational
military exercises in countries bordering China (Khaan Quest in
Mongolia, Steppe Eagle in Kazakhstan) and near it (Angkor Sentinel in
Cambodia), has with its NATO allies waged war and moved into bases in
nations bordering China - Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and
Tajikistan - as well as nearby Uzbekistan, and, even before the official
announcement of the strategic shift to the Asia-Pacific region,
acquired the use of new military facilities in Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan,
Pakistan, Australia, Singapore and the Philippines.''
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