BOOK REVIEW: 'Seapower States' by Andrew Lambert

SEAPOWER STATES: MARITIME CULTURE, CONTINENTAL EMPIRES AND THE CONFLICT THAT MADE THE MODERN WORLD

By Andrew Lambert

Yale University Press, $30, 424 pages

If Andrew Lambert is correct, China is a sea power "wanna be" and not a seapower state. That Means she will ditch her current naval aspirations if ...