While revoking China’s invitation from the Rim of the Pacific 2018 maritime exercises was a symbolic move, it sent a signal that the United States is willing to confront Beijing and maintain American leadership in the Western Pacific, the top Pentagon official for the region said Tuesday. Taking a stand against China’s bullying and harassment of its neighbors and its territorial claims “finds the United States and many other countries side-by-side,” Randall Schriver, assistant secretary for Asia-Pacific affairs, said at an American Enterprise Institute forum on Southeast Asia said on Tuesday. Chinese maritime forces conduct “more shadowing, more harassment,” he … Continue reading DoD Official: U.S. Committed to Countering Chinese Military Intimidation in South East Asia