China, Easing and Edging US Out of Asia

The Party’s military buildup has been about making the cost of American military intervention in Asia prohibitive.
China, Easing and Edging US Out of Asia
Two large blocks of ice sit in a bucket in a classroom to cool the students from the summer heat wave at a school in Jinan, Shandong Province, China on July 5. AFP/AFP/Getty Images
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Seth Cropsey sits to the left of John Lee and Dan Blumenthal, at the Hudson Institute in Washington, on Oct. 27. The panelists explored the difficulties presented by a rising China, and the current and potential responses by the United States and others.  (Matthew Robertson/The Epoch Times)
Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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