
If the United States attempts to limit or manage China's expansion in the Asia-Pacific, then fails to back up its demands, it risks losing credibility in that region as it has in the Middle East , Sen. Sullivan, (R-Alaska), a Senate Armed Services Committee member, said Thursday.Sullivan, a former Marine, said that while the U.S. military’s credibility in the Middle East is “in tatters,” many Asian nations hold it in high regard and have mirrored the U.S. pivot to the…