Tony Seruga(@TonySeruga):“If you are Taiwan or the Philippines or Japan, you’re looking at this and saying the U.S. is basically not here, and the Chinese are, and the Chinese are showing off their military capability,” Clark says. “The Chinese don’t even have to fight a war if they can convince those neighbors that the U.S. really isn’t going to be there for them, and that they should just bandwagon with China and go along with what China wants to do.”

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“If you are Taiwan or the Philippines or Japan, you’re looking at this and saying the U.S. is basically not here, and the Chinese are, and the Chinese are showing off their military capability,” Clark says. “The Chinese don’t even have to fight a war if they can convince those neighbors that the U.S. really isn’t going to be there for them, and that they should just bandwagon with China and go along with what China wants to do.”