The Ryukyu Defense Line: Japan’s Response To China’s Naval Push Into Pacific Ocean – Analysis
By Felix K. Chang*
(FPRI) -- For most of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, the sea was the path over which foreign foes reached China, a fact not lost on Chinese naval strategists. In the 1980s, with the advent of long-range standoff weapons, those strategists began to argue that China would have to...
