Robert D. Kaplan

Center for a New American Security

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Senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and contributing editor to the Atlantic; author, most recently, of Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific

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The US is increasing naval forces in the western Pacific, where tensions are on the increase between China and neighboring countries.  Now China is building five artificial islands in…

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