China ability to threaten U.S air bases, aircraft carriers, and other surface ships presents serious strategic and operational challenges for United States and its allies and partners throughout Indo-Pacific, .. Much of Chinese leaders concerns center on PLA's lack of recent combat..…

After Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, Governor Jerry Brown — he has said “we are a separate nation in our own minds” — crossed the Pacific to negotiate a bilateral carbon-emissions pact with Chinese president Xi Jinping. ..…