China’s Asia-First Blueprint: Denial Warfare Over Global Ambition
Andrew Latham argues that China’s military modernization is built for regional denial—through an A2/AD architecture, sea denial, and land-based missiles—to make the Western Pacific too costly to contest and to shield Taiwan, with Asia’s economic heft enabling global influence. The piece urges Washington to shift from chasing global power projection to a posture that blocks Beijing’s regional aims in the Indo-Pacific.
