The United States is talking a big game in Asia, but China is moving fast - The Washington Post

The United States is talking a big game in Asia, but China is moving fast  The Washington Post

Acting secretary of defense Patrick Shanahan speaks at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore last Saturday. (Roslan Rohman/AFP/Getty Images)Getty Images SINGAPORE – This past weekend, as Asia’s top national security leaders convened in a Singapore hotel to discuss how to manage the region’s delicate national security dynamics and avoid conflict, Chinese officials nodded along with the rest. Simultaneously, across the region, the People’s Liberation Army took a huge step to advance its military expansion. The contradiction perfectly illustrates how the United States is talking big...