Chinese and American forces in the Pacific have had a busy year, with the great power rivalry flaring up again recently in the skies off Alaska. Yet this was only the latest episode in a long-running saga of moves and countermoves playing out in warmer seas to the south. The plodding US–PRC checkers game of the past has become a high-stakes chess match of oceanic geopolitics. Beijing and Washington both favor a strategic ambiguity that obscures their plans, objectives, and outcomes as the military escalation builds.
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