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The Emerging Military Balance in East Asia: How China's Neighbors Can Check Chinese Naval Expansion

Author(s) -

Michael Beckley

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

international security

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69

H-Index - 106

eISSN - 1531-4804

pISSN - 0162-2889

DOI - 10.1162/isec_a_00294

Subject(s) - china , east asia , status quo , balance (ability) , denial , china sea , political science , economy , power (physics) , geography , development economics , international trade , business , economics , law , oceanography , medicine , psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , psychoanalysis , physical medicine and rehabilitation , geology

Many analysts argue that China will soon dominate East Asia militarily. In reality, China is far from achieving this goal and will remain so for the foreseeable future. China's maritime neighbors have developed antiaccess/area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities that can deny China sea and air control throughout most of its near seas, and China cannot afford the power-projection capabilities it would need to overcome these A2/AD forces. This regional balance of power enables the United States to preserve the territorial status quo in East Asia at moderate cost and risk to U.S. military forces.

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