Sumo, a highly regimented Japanese sport, is embedded with rituals of mutual respect while China and the US, poking around in the diplomatic rule book without much luck, only seem to know of Sumo's pushing and shoving in the Western Pacific
The projection of Chinese power across the Pacific is a game-changer and a two-pronged strategy, asserting military power behind walls and letting trade flows trickle beyond, across the island archipelagos of the Pacific
The rise of Asia represents the beginnings of a shift in the balance of economic power in the world and some erosion in the political dominance of the West. Although massive, the poverty reduction could have been much greater but for the rising inequality