The U.S. and China wage diplomatic war in the Central and South Pacific

FOREIGN POLICY: May 31, 2023

Eighty-one years separate 1942 and 2023. In that human lifetime, the technologies of war have changed, as have some of the regional and global actors. Great Power rivalry definitely isn’t ancient history in the Pacific and East Asia. However, communist China is now the expansionist power, not imperial Japan. The U.S. is still the challenged, but its allies now include democratic Japan, the independent Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan.