The United States is building up its navy fleet in the Asia-Pacific region, a part of the world where China also has strategic interests. By 2020 the Pentagon plans to shift 60 percent of its naval assets to the Pacific, in contrast to the current 50-50 split with the Atlantic. The move is part of the Obama administration's strategic pivot to Asia, which analysts say is designed to offset China's rising military power. Still, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a recent ...
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