Why Should We Care if the Gray Zone War is Heating Up Again in East Asia?

Podcast: Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific? · Ray Powell & Jim Carouso

Opublikowano: 2026-07-31

Days before ASEAN's foreign ministers landed in Manila, a Chinese Coast Guard sailor clubbed a Filipino sailor bloody at Second Thomas Shoal. Beijing normally lowers the temperature before diplomatic set pieces. This time it raised it, and nobody outside China knows whether that was a local commander improvising or a deliberate message. Co-host Ray Powell was in Manila for all of it, and this week he and Jim Carouso work through why the gray zone war across East Asia is heating up again and why it reaches well beyond a few contested reefs. The Philippines...