Austin Bay: China's trouble with its neighbors should be focus of coverage

Just released to Congress is the Pentagon’s annual report on China’s military. Weapons programs got ink, especially its cyberwar programs, its expanding navy, ballistic missile projects.

The report summarized China’s strategic priorities as “perpetuating Communist Party rule, sustaining economic growth and development, maintaining domestic political stability, defending China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and securing China’s status as a great power.”