America and its Asian allies need to spend more to deter China

Unlike in Europe or the Middle East, there are no big interstate wars taking place in Asia right now. But the threat from China’s military build-up is obvious. Across the Pacific, American airmen are busy restoring and upgrading second-world-war airbases so that they can be used by their forces today. This is part of a policy to deter China that began under President Joe Biden. Now President Donald Trump is demanding that America’s Asian friends contribute far more to this task.