Relation between china and the U.S. have turned frosty as well. Beijing is in creasing irked by America’s continued presence in Asia, which acts as a check on its own ambitions. Now, along with the container vessel carrying the vast merchandise produced in East Asian factories, fighter jets and naval vessels of various nations buzz each other, and threaten worse. As the leaders of Asia and other Pacific Rim nations ready to meet in Beijing for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November, tensions in the region are arguably at their highest since the Korean War.