By Dai Xu
August 11, 2010
One needs to have a basic understanding of the nature of the United States and its global strategy in order to comprehend its recent provocations in the Yellow Sea and the South China Sea. The 2010 US defense report said first and foremost the U.S. is a nation at war.
From a historical perspective, the U.S. has continuously found enemies and waged wars. It has become part of its social formula. Without wars the US economy loses stimulus. Without enemies the U.S. cannot hold the will of the whole nation.
Its recent military drills in the Yellow Sea and announcement to intervene in the South China Sea affairs were efforts made to encircle China. It is attempting to build the "Asian NATO" with Japan, South Korea, Australia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
China is becoming the world's wealth centre. The U.S. could benefit from China's economic development. For China, with its backward military force, development is the top priority. It has neither the intention nor the capacity to challenge the global hegemony of the U.S.
China is unlikely to take a tough line against the strategy of the U.S. China is bound to stand side by side with the U.S. in the international arena. It will not tolerate the U.S. closing in forever, though.
In order to prevent the U.S. from surrounding it, China needs to draw a clear bottom line. The U.S. is not allowed to coerce China to give in on matters concerning China's territory and maritime sovereignty, national solidarity and regional issues. And it is not allowed to jeopardize China's national interest by collaborating with neighboring countries.
China has never done anything with the enemies of the U.S. that would harm the country's security. The U.S. has no right to unscrupulously engage in activities that threaten China's security time and again. As a responsible power, China's priority is safeguarding its own dignity.
If the U.S. is adjusting its global strategic emphasis, China needs to reevaluate its strategy toward the U.S. China loves peace, but it will staunchly safeguard its national interests.
The author is Air Force Colonel and a military strategist.
(The post was first published in Chinese and translated by Zhang Ming'ai)
26 Comments
oversea chinese
1.46.81.*
2010-09-10 01:09
To Eagle:
What a F_cking Evil you are.Does the Chinese Rise Matter anything to your business.Don't forget your soil that you set your foot on really belong to you.Your ancester just have robbed it from the native red indian.You are just the fruit of your F_cking Evil.Give back your soil to the native and put your head back into your mom ass.
Free Tibet
98.184.167.*
2010-09-05 09:50
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China is socialist and not communist
69.86.233.*
2010-08-23 12:12
The US is always trying to backstab China as it sees China as a rival. The US government incorrectly labels China as a communist country which is incorrect. China has transitioned itself as a socialist country. Labeling China as a communist country is one of the tactics used by the US government to contain and encircle China. Countries all around the world know that China is not a communist country anymore but the US purposely still labels China as communist even though the US government KNOWS that China is not a communist country anymore but a socialist country.
urubus
203.97.220.*
2010-08-21 17:24
Encircle China? Well China must now step up tie with Cuba
Venezuela and move nuclear missiles over there! If China started to sink any boats coming into Southern China sea infringing China`s sovereign bet America could do nothing
what will that leave the Vietnamese? Sucked by the yankee again! Some of these little Asean countries never learn from history. China go - build up the economy, make China great as a nation and let the Chinese become great too. America is declining, very soon it will be irrelevant in Asia.
Roder
60.6.240.*
2010-08-17 15:15
@Tianjin, if American close it imports, it will die first.
Mr. Singh
69.86.233.*
2010-08-16 00:52
The China-ASEAN Summit is to develop economic friendships with China's neighbors. China has very good intentions to build friendships with it's neighbors.
Tianjin
98.184.167.*
2010-08-15 15:10
TO HUNGSAOBINH: BRAVO! YOUR COMMENTS ARE ON THE MONEY AS WELL...CHINA ECONOMY MODEL IS NOT SELF SUFFICIENT, IF AMERICA CLOSED ITS IMPORTS THEN CHINA IS DEAD.
Tianjin
98.184.167.*
2010-08-15 15:03
TO LEEKUNGPAO: YOUR COMMENTS ARE RIGHT ON THE MONEY....CHINA IS A LONER BECAUSE OF ITS BEHAVIORS.
US-Conquistor
68.228.14.*
2010-08-14 07:25
1)China, a "Superpower"? Fine! But it must show the world its willing to be responsible. Really? Ask yourself.
2)As if a "Superpower" China must have a cool head. The whole thing is China so over-reacting. Why? Why it needs to confront the US? It is not neccesarily absolutely.
3) China is not threatened by anyone. It is about North and South Korea. Why China gets involved?
4) Already forgot "Hiding one's strength & Biding one's time" _ by Dang Xiao Bing. ????????
HUNGSAOBINH
173.51.135.*
2010-08-13 14:54
CHINESE ECONOMY, THOUGH LOOKING STRONG, IS VERY FRAGILE BECAUSE IT DEPENDS TOO MUCH ON EXPORTS. IF THE U.S STOP IMPORTING CHINESE GOODS, CHINESE ECONOMY WOULD COLLAPSE ALMOST INSTANTLY. THE U.S MARKET IS A VERY BIG MARKET AND WITHOUT IT, CHINA WOULD NOT SURVIVE. LET ALONE WAGING WAR AGAINST THE U.S.
LEEKUNGPAO
173.51.135.*
2010-08-13 14:45
CHINA MUST LEARN TO RESPECT OTHERS IF IT WANTS TO BE RESPECTED. AFTER WHAT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, CHINA'S NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES HAVE SHOWN THEIR DISTRUST IN CHINA AS A PEACEFUL BROTHER. ITS INTENTIONS TO TURN INDIA, TIBET, TAIWAN, YELLOW SEA, SOUTH CHINA SEA AND ALL THE ISLANDS NEAR AND FAR, ITS "CORE INTEREST", HAVE BACKFIRED. IT'S AGGRESSIVENESS AGAINST ITS NEIGHBORS COSTS IT LOSING MANY IMPORTANT ALLIES. ALREADY, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, INDONESIA, PHILLIPINE, MALAYSIA, TAIWAN, JAPAN, SO. KOREA AND VIETNAM HAVE BANDED TOGETHER AND SIDED WITH THE U.S TO CONTAIN CHINA. PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, THOUGH, USING CHINA PRODUCTS, STILL LOOK DOWN ON CHINA DUES TO ITS CARELESS POLICY OF DUMPING POISONING GOODS OVERSEA. THE IMAGE OF HARD WORKING CHINESE PEOPLE, SOMEHOW, TAINTED BECAUSE OF THE WAY CHINESE COMMUNISTS BEHAVE. CHINA NEEDS TO RETHINK ITS STRATEGY OF WORLD DOMINATION IF IT WANT TO SURVIVE ON THIS PLANET. CHINA NOW A LONER WITHOUT FRIENDS EXCEPT N. KOREA.
Andy
67.226.153.*
2010-08-13 02:00
Right now, Obama showed his true face, it is good news actually
China can throw away all illusions on Obama for good and redefine strategy,
To counter this containment from US, China don't need do much, just do business with every country as usual no matter US like that country or not,
Then wait for US self-destruction in next few decades.
Go China
funkedUp
89.207.0.*
2010-08-12 20:00
I would advise China to not misinterpret US kindness for weakness. Right now the US may be weaker than it has been for some time but no-one would bet against the US in the long run. China has had the benefit of 20 years advancement well the US was preoccupied with wars in the mid east. The US is rearing its head again and already the pieces are moving into place as it focuses on China proper. I for one would never underestimate the US. It has proven time and again able to see off these threats.
Joe
222.216.564.*
2010-08-12 17:11
It would be foolish to ignore the threat from the United States. The Americans broke their promise to Gorbachev not to extend NATO to Russia's frontiers and they will do everything in their power to contain China.
Indonesia power
99.146.10.*
2010-08-12 15:49
pay us back US... pay us back from all the wars you made in our country - pay China back or they'll beat you!
lost to a Gook...
99.146.10.*
2010-08-12 15:45
Oops forgot the US owed a lot of money to China. And the poor Americans who can barely afford a computer like Eagle and Go USA will have to pay. Hahaha.
Asians Unite!
99.146.10.*
2010-08-12 15:43
So far all the actions the US is creating is utter Failure as actions create closer bonds between Asian nations in the wake of a weak US economy. Who is seriously going to listen to the US anymore? Let's unite beat the shit out of those racists who don't care where you're from but will hate you as long as you are Asian - with sanctions, counter-terrorism, bonds recall, and nuclear and biochemical weapons.
US-Conquistor
68.228.14.*
2010-08-12 15:16
1) China eat a "bait" at sea, soon to be a dying fish.
2) Change to ultra-nationalist to become a weak state.
3) Liberate Tibet and all "core interests" provinces.
Tonton Makoute
77.207.100.*
2010-08-12 15:00
Ever since the founding of New China in 1949, the western world led by the USA has been trying to isolate and overthrow the new Chinese socialist regime. The USA has tried to set up the 'OTASE' Treaty to encircle China militarily, but it failed ignominiously. Now, some of the former anti-China western alliance members have adpoted more sensible stances, but it remains the arch-rogue States that is trying to divert China's efforts to develop peacefully, by compelling it to trifle its money away in military expenditures. Fortunately, the Chinese leadership is a wise one.
bettor
108.7.43.*
2010-08-12 13:47
The US only needs to review WW2 history and understand the meaning of friendship and cooperation. This new game is only designed to give the junior Kim and Moa generals their first taste of blood in ten years. A strategy no doubt concocted by drunken idiots who suffer the illusion of Totalitarianism.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
29/07 Time to counter U.S. ploys
By Li Bing
0 CommentsPrint E-mail China Daily, July 29, 2010
Instigating Southeast Asian nations over the South China Sea issue is a gambit aimed at containing China's rise
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends the U.S. - ASEAN Ministerial Meeting during the 43rd annual ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Hanoi July 22, 2010. [Xinhua]
The South China Sea is a body of water with rich natural resources and is of strategic significance to China in a geopolitical sense.
The current standstill in resolving territorial disputes in the South China Sea is being exploited as needed pretext for outside interference.
At the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Regional Forum held in Vietnam on July 23, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that resolving the South China Sea issue was "pivotal to regional stability" and suggested an international mechanism to settle the dispute.
The United States is the largest external power hampering a peaceful settlement of the South China Sea issue.
The Obama administration adjusted Washington's Southeast Asian policy in an attempt to cozy up to ASEAN countries. The US is trying to strengthen its influence in the region so as to contain China by interfering with the ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.
Washington has strengthened its military cooperation in the region, stealthily instigated and supported some local countries to scramble for the Nansha Islands, and has dispatched naval vessels to China's exclusive economic zone to conduct illegal surveys.
Resolving the South China Sea issue is of great significance for China's peaceful development. As far as national security is concerned, full control over the waters could enable the Chinese navy to better protect its seas. It is also helpful in maintaining security in the Asia-Pacific region.
By trying to internationalize the South China Sea issue, the US wants to put off its resolution so as to contain China's rise.
The US has multiple interests in Southeast Asia.
On a strategic level, Washington wants Southeast Asia to form the center of an "Asian strategic alliance" that includes Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and India.
On a political level, the US continues to export "democracy" and Western values to Southeast Asian countries.
On the economic level, the US has close ties with Southeast Asia in terms of trade, finance and investment and considers the latter an important overseas market, resource supplier and investment destination.
At a military and security level, the US wants to set up more military bases and positively interfere in security affairs in the Asia-Pacific region.
All parties in the region covet the comparatively rich oil and gas reserves in the South China Sea, especially the US, which is keen to control energy resources all over the world, for which it never hesitates to launch a war.
Therefore, the US has made great efforts to complicate, extend and internationalize the South China Sea issue and it assiduously attempts to make the sea declared as international waters so that it can wantonly participate in oil exploitation in the region.
In addition, through cooperation with oil companies of Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines, American oil giants have participated in exploiting oil and gas in the South China Sea and the US military claims that it is responsible for providing security for these companies.
The US has a national interest in navigation in the South China Sea. In order to secure its control on important sea-lanes, the US doesn't want to see China cooperating with other concerned countries to resolve the issue.
On the contrary, through high-intensity surveillance of China via warships and planes and holding of joint military drills with certain countries, the US is hindering a peaceful resolution of the issue.
The South China Sea issue not only concerns vying for jurisdiction of islands and reefs, delimitation of exclusive economic zones and division of marine resources, but also involves China's strategic sea-lane safety and long-term development. Therefore, the issue should be accorded strategic importance as it concerns national security.
An important precondition for putting forward the doctrine of "setting aside disputes and working for joint development" is that China has indisputable sovereignty over the islands on the South China Sea. Setting aside disputes doesn't mean indefinite abeyance, nor to abandon sovereignty.
China needs to strengthen fishery administration and maritime supervision so as to protect the rights and interests of Chinese fishermen, dispel illegal foreign survey ships, claim sovereignty in the South China Sea and contain the rampant plundering of its resources by others.
China has persisted in resolving the dispute through peaceful negotiations with neighboring countries. China never bullies the weak. At the same time, Beijing will never allow external forces, like the US, to interfere in the matter.
The author is a former research fellow at the Institute of International Studies, Central Party School.
0 CommentsPrint E-mail China Daily, July 29, 2010
Instigating Southeast Asian nations over the South China Sea issue is a gambit aimed at containing China's rise
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends the U.S. - ASEAN Ministerial Meeting during the 43rd annual ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Hanoi July 22, 2010. [Xinhua] The South China Sea is a body of water with rich natural resources and is of strategic significance to China in a geopolitical sense.
The current standstill in resolving territorial disputes in the South China Sea is being exploited as needed pretext for outside interference.
At the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Regional Forum held in Vietnam on July 23, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that resolving the South China Sea issue was "pivotal to regional stability" and suggested an international mechanism to settle the dispute.
The United States is the largest external power hampering a peaceful settlement of the South China Sea issue.
The Obama administration adjusted Washington's Southeast Asian policy in an attempt to cozy up to ASEAN countries. The US is trying to strengthen its influence in the region so as to contain China by interfering with the ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.
Washington has strengthened its military cooperation in the region, stealthily instigated and supported some local countries to scramble for the Nansha Islands, and has dispatched naval vessels to China's exclusive economic zone to conduct illegal surveys.
Resolving the South China Sea issue is of great significance for China's peaceful development. As far as national security is concerned, full control over the waters could enable the Chinese navy to better protect its seas. It is also helpful in maintaining security in the Asia-Pacific region.
By trying to internationalize the South China Sea issue, the US wants to put off its resolution so as to contain China's rise.
The US has multiple interests in Southeast Asia.
On a strategic level, Washington wants Southeast Asia to form the center of an "Asian strategic alliance" that includes Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and India.
On a political level, the US continues to export "democracy" and Western values to Southeast Asian countries.
On the economic level, the US has close ties with Southeast Asia in terms of trade, finance and investment and considers the latter an important overseas market, resource supplier and investment destination.
At a military and security level, the US wants to set up more military bases and positively interfere in security affairs in the Asia-Pacific region.
All parties in the region covet the comparatively rich oil and gas reserves in the South China Sea, especially the US, which is keen to control energy resources all over the world, for which it never hesitates to launch a war.
Therefore, the US has made great efforts to complicate, extend and internationalize the South China Sea issue and it assiduously attempts to make the sea declared as international waters so that it can wantonly participate in oil exploitation in the region.
In addition, through cooperation with oil companies of Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines, American oil giants have participated in exploiting oil and gas in the South China Sea and the US military claims that it is responsible for providing security for these companies.
The US has a national interest in navigation in the South China Sea. In order to secure its control on important sea-lanes, the US doesn't want to see China cooperating with other concerned countries to resolve the issue.
On the contrary, through high-intensity surveillance of China via warships and planes and holding of joint military drills with certain countries, the US is hindering a peaceful resolution of the issue.
The South China Sea issue not only concerns vying for jurisdiction of islands and reefs, delimitation of exclusive economic zones and division of marine resources, but also involves China's strategic sea-lane safety and long-term development. Therefore, the issue should be accorded strategic importance as it concerns national security.
An important precondition for putting forward the doctrine of "setting aside disputes and working for joint development" is that China has indisputable sovereignty over the islands on the South China Sea. Setting aside disputes doesn't mean indefinite abeyance, nor to abandon sovereignty.
China needs to strengthen fishery administration and maritime supervision so as to protect the rights and interests of Chinese fishermen, dispel illegal foreign survey ships, claim sovereignty in the South China Sea and contain the rampant plundering of its resources by others.
China has persisted in resolving the dispute through peaceful negotiations with neighboring countries. China never bullies the weak. At the same time, Beijing will never allow external forces, like the US, to interfere in the matter.
The author is a former research fellow at the Institute of International Studies, Central Party School.
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