Forget About Syria, Worry About China

Forget About Syria, Worry About China

It is now argued most authoritatively that U.S. President Barack Obama has failed to act decisively to remove Bashar al-Assad's regime from power in Syria because of internal divisions within his administration, miscalculations about the balance of power on the ground, and the president's own irresolution. There is another explanation, however: that the Obama administration is showing calculated restraint induced by bitter experience and, even more, by the overriding strategic priority of disengaging from the Islamic arc of conflict to better engage with China.

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