Moreover, the strategy would almost certainly be a wasting one. Once China recognized that the United States was not seeking to directly defend its allies in the Western Pacific but was attacking China’s assets farther afield, Beijing could adapt its military accordingly. It could adjust the PLA’s force structure, posture, and operational concepts to shift away from the near battle, which was no longer being contested, to focus on protecting those more distant assets and on menacing America’s own. Given that US interests are far more dispersed around the world than China’s, it seems likely
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