China Fills Libya Power Void

Geopolitics: As Libya's regime crumbles, China's navy is steaming toward the Tripoli coast in an unprecedented show of sea power. Why isn't our Navy there first? Technically speaking, there's nothing amiss in the Chinese sending a warship to help evacuate its 30,000 nationals as the Libyan dictatorship collapses. On Friday, China's defense ministry announced it was dispatching the missile frigate Xuzhou from the Gulf of Aden to the Libyan coast on a mission to protect its people. This is what any great power with a battleship does — not just keep the peace, but let troublemakers know a big stick...