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Flags from the Pacific Islands countries being displayed in Yaren on the last day of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), in Nauru, on Sept. 5, 2018. Mike Leyral/AFP via Getty Images
The relative strategic positions of the two dominant dynamic elements of the Pacific competition—China and the United States—appear to be moving incrementally in the United States’ favor as each undergoes massive internal “deconstruction.”
Gregory Copley is president of the Washington-based International Strategic Studies Association and editor-in-chief of the “Defense & Foreign Affairs” series of publications. Born in Australia, Copley is an entrepreneur, writer, government adviser, defense publication editor, and Member of the Order of Australia. His latest and 37th book is “The Noble State: Governance Options in an Ignoble Era.”
