While flash points in Asia with the potential to trigger a conflict between the U.S. and China are growing, a few foreign policy experts argue that the U.S. and China are actually moving farther from war.

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Senior Associate Yun Sun, a scholar at Henry L. Stimson Center, explained in a recent article in Policy Forum that China has been attempting to de-escalate since The Hague ruled against Beijing’s nine-dashed line. Sun wrote, “China has not announced the creation of a South China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone, nor has it started land reclamation on the Scarborough Shoal.”

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