Beijing’s hard power push seen stigmatizing nation for ‘imperial overreach’

By World Tribune on April 22, 2015   BB NE Asia, China, Exclusives, Indonesia, Intel Brief, Japan, NE Asia, Philippines, Top Stories, Vietnam  

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com The Xi Jinping administration’s aggressive power projection in the South China Sea could deal a frontal blow to Beijing’s “peripheral diplomacy,” which is supposed to improve the country’s relations with neighbors in the Asia-Pacific Region. The Xi leadership has redoubled reclamation efforts in several islets and rocks in […]