published Jun 10, 2018 9:00:14 AM, by Hal Brands (Bloomberg Opinion) — (This is the first in a series of columns on China’s effort to supplant the U.S. as the world’s pre-eminent geopolitical power.)I wrote a column recently about how a longstanding assumption of America’s China policy — that economic

What mysteries lay in the deep? What treasures are hidden underwater?  The ocean covers 80% of our world. It’s estimated that to date humans have explored less than 5 percent of the entire world’s water. Considering that for centuries travel by water was our primary mode of transportation over long