This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. The National Security Strategy published these last days much to interpret.

And Gordon Chang, at Gordon G.ang, my colleague and co-host,

and we're eager to hear from Steve Yates of the Heritage Foundation

with regard the NSS and East Asia.

The threat is East Asia, not only in trade, not only in culture,

but also kinetic warfare. Steve, a very good day to you.

You read especially with your background, the East Asia part of the National Security Strategy.

What surprises you, what disappoints you, what is fresh. Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. I think the new twist

in the national security strategy just reflects the reality of recent experience. It's the first time

in my memory that a document focused this clearly on East Asia's first island chain and second

island chain as strategically important, but also

at the center of America's deterrence equation.

For generations, frankly, we have looked at Taiwan's straight contingency in an isolated

U.S.-China kind of framework, looking perhaps at Taiwan's political change versus China's threat of use

of force. But the recent bullying of Japan, the Philippines that has provoked a strategic

response from both of those countries, I think animates this new defined strategy with

balancing roles and responsibilities up and down that island chain that, frankly, should complicate Beijing's calculus.

By bullying, you mean there were intemperate remarks saying they'll cut the head off of the new prime minister of Tokyo?

Is that bullying?

Of course, there's no shortage of wolf warrior political warfare in what Beijing has been doing

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