CHINA NOT A PLAYER IN MILITARY BALANCE OF POWER.(Editorial) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: May 29, 1997 | COPYRIGHT 1997 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A concern over China as a serious threat to the regional balance of power must hinge on its ability to move aggressively into the maritime regions of East Asia.

Specifically, it must focus on China's ability to become a military power in the East China Sea or the South China Sea.

But in fact China's authority in the East China Sea relies on airpower.

Its proximity to the East China Sea allows it to use land-based airpower to influence naval activit...

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