Our declared interests in Asia keep growing, we ask PACOM to do what it can to advance them, but we starve them of resources to do the job. We are coming to a point where either we retrench from our commitments in Asia or we decide as a nation to properly fund them.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's declaration that the United States will play a role in South China Sea territorial issues must be backed by a commitment to take naval action to counter Chinese aggression.

America is at a crossroads in deciding how it will play its role as the guarantor of stability in the Asia-Pacific region.

The U.S. Navy will have to face new challenges from China and North Korea with fewer resources.

Years of waiting for China to play a more constructive global role have given way to the realization that American and Chinese national interests may simply be too divergent.

The explanation for China's international rudeness is a threefold recipe for mischief: greater military power combined with leadership weakness and a xenophobic nationalism that China's leadership created.

As China's military strategy develops, so should a serious US response to it.

China's entry into the World Trade Organization marked the final step in China's long march from Maoist autarky to global trading nation.