"The U.S. Naval War College held its annual Current Strategy Forum on June 14 and 15, on its picturesque campus in Newport, Rhode Island. This Forum brought together policymakers, expert analysts, War College students, and interested civilians to discuss varying aspects of U.S. strategy.
The theme of this year's Forum was "Strategy in Complex and Uncertain Times," and it featured keynote addresses by Under Secretary of the Navy Janine Davidson, Commandant of the Marine Corps General Robert Neller, Former Ambassador Robert Blackwill, Dr. Andrew Krepinevich of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, author of War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft; and Dr. Elizabeth Economy, author of By All Necessary Means: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World.
The Asia-Pacific region and China dominated the conference. Each of the keynote speakers identified East Asia and the Western Pacific as the world's geopolitical center of gravity. China's "One Road, One Belt" and aggressive moves in the South China and East China Seas appear to be causing the most concern among American officials, policymakers, and foreign policy thinkers. Speakers also noted, with alarm, Chinese President Xi Jinping's accumulation of domestic political power at a level not seen in China since Mao Zedong…"
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