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Asia ‘rapidly sliding towards war’ and US is to blame, Chinese professor says
Zheng argued that the Asia-Pacific region was destined to be the battleground for any future world war, as it contained all the key elements: economic interests, US involvement, efforts to set up an Asian equivalent of Nato, military modernisation and …