Gridlock has put U.S. strategic advantages in the Pacific at risk
Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the think tank RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, California, and an adjunct professor in the practice of political science and international relations at the University of Southern California. He formerly served as an intelligence adviser at the Pentagon.
The U.S. is on the verge of an enormous geostrategic blunder in the Indo-Pacific region.