Commentary Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping is working hard to ensure that the United States moves it strategic center of gravity back to the Atlantic and away from the Indo-Pacific. But even strong moves to show a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) thrust into the Atlantic may be insufficient to divert anything but a small proportion of U.S. strategic assets away from the Indo-Pacific. Even so, any reduction in U.S. and allied force capabilities and priority away from the Indo-Pacific would be regarded as a bonus for the PLA in its gaming of potential conflict closer to the Chinese mainland. Beijing has begun moves to build basing facilities in the Atlantic in Guinea-Bissau on Africa’s Central West coast, and on the Portuguese Azores island chain in the mid-Atlantic. It has also pushed the leftist government of President Alberto Ángel Fernández in Argentina to resurrect the threat to British …