Island Chains: Can the US's Cold War Strategy Still Contain China?
China is expanding its military reach and presence within the three Pacific island chains with the world's largest navy.
The National Interest29d
No, The First Island Chain Isn’t Lost
In Brandon Weichert’s recent article in this publication, he argues that the United States has potentially “already lost the First Island Chain” due to China’s growing anti-access/area ...
Daily Mail3d
The world after China takes Taiwan: America humiliated. Beijing rules new world order. Kim Jong Un strikes South Korea. A chilling vision of how the world as we know it changes ...
The island is a manufacturing and technological powerhouse that occupies a critical part of the global supply chain ... were to break out. 'I think the more likely scenario would be China ...
Nikkei Asia7d
U.S. bolsters 'second island chain' defense with eye on China
WASHINGTON -- On his first trip to the Indo-Pacific as U.S ... bolstering the "second island chain." ...
csis.org19d
Crossroads of Competition: China in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
1 PLAN or CCG officers are undoubtedly sincere in their desire to keep the Americans out of the first island chain. But that is not the primary reason China has advanced its maritime claims. If it was ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser7d
China launches Taiwan military drills, calls island’s president a ‘parasite’
Chinese forces staged war games to simulate seizing full control of areas west of the so-called first island chain and conducted live-fire missile exercises. China considers democratically ...
The Sun7d
China surrounds Taiwan with 19 warships and 50 warplanes in snap war drills after slamming island’s ‘parasite’ president
CHINA has launched a fresh round of army ... Taiwan sits in the so-called "first island chain", which includes a list of US-friendly territories that are crucial to Washington's foreign policy ...
朝日新聞社6d
China launches military drills around Taiwan, calls Taiwan president a ‘parasite’
Chinese forces staged war games to simulate seizing full control of areas west of the so-called first island chain and conducted live-fire missile exercises. China considers democratically ...