TY - BOOK AU - WALDRON Arthur TI - The Asia mess: how things did not turn out as planned PY - 2015/// KW - CHINA KW - UNITED STATES KW - FOREIGN POLICY KW - ASIA N2 - Today China possesses military and economic power undreamed of in the 1970s. And it has embarked on a course that seeks fundamentally to alter the political and territorial status quo in Asia while using military force as she seeks to acquire territories she claims, far from her continental territory. This article surveys how this new situation developed and details the problems it poses ER -