China’s state news agency warned against growing US militarism today, citing President Obama’s new military spending strategy, which Chinese experts see as an effort to encircle them and reduce their influence in the region.
A number of news stories in China focused on this story, with a Chinese newspaper owned by the nation’s ruling Communist Party warned against “appeasement” of the US and urged China’s military to adopt an “assertive” policy in response.
President Obama’s strategy has been presented primarily as a “cut” in the US media, even though it amounts to an overall spending increase. It reduces the number of ground troops but increases spending on both warplanes and naval power.
The change, particularly the increased focus on naval power, is seen by the Chinese as focusing on an inevitable intervention in the South China Sea, where China is in an ongoing dispute with other nations over some key islands.
China doesn't station troops in the Americas, but the USA has troops all over Asia and the far east and the western Pacific. The USA routinely sails it warships in waters very close to China. The reverse is not true.
THATS AN OBAMINATION
The world is fortunate to have China. Remember Cuba/ The U.S. would've started a nuclear war with Russia if Russia didn't have more sense than the trigger-happy Yanks.
China hasn't been around for thousands of years because it does thing precipitously!
The World is lucky that it has China and Russia. It provides balance to the crazy Yanks!
As America and Americans grow weary of the so-called "War" Against so-called "Terrorism," the FatherLand Security/Military-Industrial Complex can be counted upon to come up with a not-so-subtle variation on a theme.
After the Soviet Empire collapsed in the wake of WW III (yes, 3), the need for a New "Enemy," a new "Threat" was paramount. The so-called "War" on so-called "Drugs" was a bust, primarily because more Americans are on some sort of drug than are not and even We (DFs that we are) couldn't be bullshi***ed into that one. So, happily, just in time, along came bin Laden and his Merry Pranksters at a-Q, and, VOILA!….. several trillions of $$$$ later…. here we are.
But it gets old. So…. it's time to nurture in the hearts and minds of Americans a "New Threat, a New Enemy." And China has got to be the very Best Enemy that the neoliberal neoconservatives (or are they neoconservative neoliberals) could ever hope for.
Of course they see it as this. Since Obama's been starting war after war in the middle east and africa, when Obama then says he want's to instead focus on Asia-Pacific, that has to be very worrying to the nation's there.
Also, where reading something like this, remember the powerful role that interservice rivalries play in the US military. The 'war on terror' largely excluded the Navy and the Air Force from any sensible role. You can't justify massive new billion dollar carriers or planes that cost $20k an hour to fly from a war against three guys holed up in a cave somewhere. So, now the Navy and Air Force get new reasons to bankrupt and destroy America
Communism was believed to be the most evil for decades "Commie" was an insult used by Amerciacans
Islam became the new "Commie"
Commie for China does not apply because they are communist and communism is no longer believed to be evil…what is US justification to cordon China militarily?
WHO says that "communism is no longer believed to be evil…"?
But whether or not communism is "evil" is irrelevant. Communism does not work. The Soviet and Warsaw Bloc experiment with European communism demonstrated that. Mao's China demonstrated that. Can you find any communist economic-poilitical entity that is not a police state?
If it worked, it wouldn't need to be a police state to protect the ruling elite, would it?
"Rise of China" is going to be like the rise of facism in Germany after the first world war and the result is well known. The communist paranoid thugs ruling China are not going to rise "peacefully". China has " historic issues" to settle with majority of its neighbors and the Chinese military preparation is all about bullying these nations into Chinese hegemony. Japan, South Korea, Viet Nam, India, Australia among others need to prepare with American leadership NOW. If China brands this American move as an "encirclement" or "Bull in China Shop", let it be their problem.
You have it backwards, Ram Sharma.
The rest of the world needs to prepare for The Onslaught of America and China in a re-do of the so-called "Cold War," aka World War III.
China is not ruled by "communist paranoid thugs"; China is ruled by crypto-capitalist Fascist paranoid thugs. Sort of like America. The ruling elits of both nations have much in common.
Of course China will cry "Foul"! They need an Enemy as much as the Ruling Elite in Washington, to keep the lid on the simmering disaffection and revolt that is brewing, and has continued to brew since Tiananmen Square, in 1989.
That was when China showed the rest of the world, particularly he emergent neoliberal/neoconservative West, exactly How to deal with dissent, protest, and dissatisfaction.
There is no such thing as an "Obama strategy" — or, more accurately, an American strategy — that is not militarized. Since the fall of the Soviet empire, the US has been floundering for want of a big huge evil enemy. "Terror" has been a disaster in that regard. So Obama is picking up where baby Bush left off before 9/11 distracted him — i.e., China will do just fine as a replacement for the Soviets.
Boy howdy! You'd hear hypocritical wails of the damned from DC to Baghdad on that one. And deservedly so.
Muslims! Chinese! Aliens! Why if they were Chinese Muslims they'd be the "new" embodiment of evil. Just wait until they package them with Al-Qaeda and it'll be the Trifecta of Trifectas to distract the hoi polloi.