As reported by UPI, Japan and its regional allies are concerned that China's threats to the region are far from "hyped-up" and are part of a greater normalization of incremental encroachments in the region. "We are facing a post-peak globalization planet that now is operating essentially under new rules of the game," Mike Studeman, national security fellow at MITRE and former rear admiral and commander of the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, said at a Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan press conference. "When one country that size becomes very zero-sum and mercantilist, then it has very strong repercussions for many other countries that are interdependent," Studeman said.
