Consider the following hypothetical: It is 2031 and the newl…
Consider the following hypothetical: It is 2031 and the newly elected isolationist president of the United States has decided to pull all of American military forces out of the Indo-Pacific. In response, South Korea forms an alliance with China. Taiwan joins an alliance with Japan against China. India decides to ‘go it alone’ and spends 25% of its GDP on its military forces. According to lecture, we would say that: