Sino File by Cary Huang

By snubbing China in Rimpac, US plays a dangerous war game

Observers speculate the US is fortifying a coalition with an aim to contain China’s rising clout. If they are right, Beijing’s increasingly assertive foreign policy could prove one of its greatest diplomatic failures

Cary Huang

Published: 12:00pm, 8 Jul, 2018

Updated: 12:00pm, 8 Jul, 2018

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Cary Huang is a veteran China affairs columnist, having written on this topic since the early 1990s. He joined the Post in 2004, and was based in Beijing between 2005 and 2013, first as a correspondent and then as bureau chief. He was previously China editor at The Standard from 1992 until 2004.