The Pentagon disclosed last week that China is incrementally moving toward becoming an expansionist military power, seeking bases overseas along with a new doctrine to support power projection around the world.
Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the Washington-based International Assessment and Strategy Center, notes that a decade ago it was clear to many observers that China harbored global military ambitions beyond Taiwan contingencies. The Pentagon, he said, lost a decade during which it could have provided real warning about the growing threat.