Regional Hegemony in Asia: Old Thinking in New Bottles

China’s Monroe Doctrine (Roger Cohen) from the New York Times
"China can “be expected to try to push the United States out of the Asia-Pacific region, much as the United States pushed the European great powers out of the Western Hemisphere in the nineteenth century. We should expect China to devise its own version of the Monroe Doctrine” — the 19th century keep-out-of-this-hemisphere message of the United States to Europe."