By Monica Showalter
As if the U.S. were not in bad enough shape militarily, China has a little surprise for us.
Here’s the buried news item from Politico’s national security newsletter, dated Jan. 11:
A “SURPRISE” IN THE PACIFIC: U.S. Indo-Pacific coordinator KURT CAMPBELL says the region could be in store for a “strategic surprise” â comments that Reuters’ DAVID BRUNNSTROM and KIRSTY NEEDHAM describe as “apparently referring to possible Chinese ambitions to establish Pacific-island bases.”
“If you look and if you ask me, where are the places where we are most likely to see certain kinds of strategic surprise â basing or certain kinds of agreements or arrangements â it may well be in the Pacific,” Campbell said Monday at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event.
