China Takes on the US

Hillary Clinton might say, “What difference does it really make” that the Obama administration has been systematically hollowing out the U.S. military? Look at the international waters of the Western Pacific to see the answer.

China’s increasingly powerful People’s Liberation Army is threatening not only its neighbors with Air Defense Identification Zones and harassment by warships. The Chinese have lately begun using such aggressive techniques against American planes and naval vessels in international waters, as well.

Communist China clearly seeks to dominate one of the world’s most strategically important regions.  Worse yet, it has become convinced that, under President Obama, America will submit, not resist.

The temptation inevitably is to downplay or ignore such aggression.  But history teaches that it will be far harder – and more costly – to challenge it later on.