The PLA Navy's expanding role in military missions other than war and new willingness to operate beyond China's immediate periphery creates opportunities to enhance maritime cooperation between the United States and China.
Forbes discusses the potential for U.S.-China maritime cooperation due to China's naval expansion.
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I believe, if we are to maintain our credibility in the region, if we are to sustain confidence in the rebalance to Asia, that it is extremely important for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be ratified.
There is no legal authority to draw a big circle in the water a thousand miles long and then claim it as some sort of special zone or internal waters.
I do not see it as inevitable that we will have a confrontation with China in the South China Sea if we have the correct strategy to avoid such confrontation and potential conflict.
I am not really--there may be a lot of excuses for not getting there by 2020 for the Air Force, but I am not listening to excuses on the civilian side anymore.
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