If current trends continue, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, by 2020 the Chinese could have more than 350 submarines and missile-equipped surface ships in the Asia-Pacific. By contrast, the U.S. Navy projects that it will have 67 submarines and surface ships “stationed in or forward deployed to” the Asia-Pacific by 2020.

Her stick made a little clickety noise on the flagstones.

What indignation in her mind Against enslavers of mankind! Base kings, and ministers of state, Eternal objects of her hate!

The speaker spoke complimentingly of the dispensary and the hospital, and of other refuges for the physically broken, […]