How a softer approach by the US to balancing a rising China could pay dividends

My Op-ed article published in the South China Morning Post dated 8 November, 2015

Download A softer US approach to balancing China could pay dividends

A more detailed version (my original draft), entitled "America has more to gain from soft power than hard power", can be accessed here.

China's Pacific Overtures, another almost simultaneous Op-ed by Simon Winchester (author of a new big-picture book "Pacific") in the New York Times dated 6 November expounds on how the history of the Pacific is now being turned on its hinge.