During a recent lecture on U.S. strategy in the Asia-Pacific, I presented the absence of interstate wars in East Asia since 1979 — the so-called “Asian peace” — as a puzzle, asking students to assign causal weight to various popular explanations for the phenomenon. Among the possible answers were U.S.
alliances, U.S. military superiority, economic […]The post Chinese Foreign Policy Is Not Responsible for the ‘Asian Peace’ appeared first on War on the Rocks.