Island chains: Can the US’s Cold War strategy still contain China?

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1. By Ryan Chan – China News Reporter:

   Experts have told *Newsweek* that the island chain strategy, which was formulated by the United States during the Cold War, remains relevant today in containing Washington’s [near-peer competitor](https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/3496656/general-says-deterring-two-near-peer-competitors-is-complex/), China, as Beijing attempts to push American forces further away from it.

   The U.S. strengthened its military deployment in the Asia-Pacific region with “a zero-sum mentality out of its own selfish interests,” heightening regional tensions and jeopardizing regional peace and stability, the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., told *Newsweek*.

   Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/us-news-pacific-island-chains-china-cold-war-strategy-2053077](https://www.newsweek.com/us-news-pacific-island-chains-china-cold-war-strategy-2053077)

2. Under competent leadership? Maybe. With the idiots in charge now, not a chance.

   edit: Spelling

3. We don’t have Kissinger to guide us anymore. Trump certainly won’t have anyone instruct him to conduct proxy wars against China.

4. Keep MAGAing like this and soon China will have a chain of allies(or equivalent) around the US.

   We’ll be winning ofc, it would be a wall and China is paying for it.

5. No because China still have access to Russia’s petroleum resources (don’t see this changing anytime soon as long as NATO exists) and they don’t have the cooperation or approval of many South East Asian states (many are distrustful of the US) to blockade China …

6. The answer lies in whether China can float a truly blue water navy that can secure its trade routes end to end. US policy will have marginal impact on that, but the US is renovating airfields on Tainan and Wake, and could do so on Midway and elsewhere in the Pacific, creating another chain for China to contend with.

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