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The war with Iran constrains America’s options in East Asia. The post So Much for the ‘Pivot to Asia’ appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs So Much for the ‘Pivot to Asia’ The war with Iran constrains America’s options in East Asia. (Photo by Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images) The American industrial base, like the budget, is finite, and arms sent and used in one region cannot be used to project power in another. The recent decision by the Trump administration to move components of an air defense system from South Korea to the Middle East underscores this basic reality. It also demonstrates that the American adventure in Iran, far from hurting China, risks involving the U.S. in another Mideast quagmire that distracts from strategic…Open
David Vitter, a former Republican senator who previously registered under FARA to help a different Chinese tech firm that was blacklisted recently executed an agreement for his D.C. lobbying firm to serve as a "foreign agent" of a Chinese robotics company linked to the CCP.