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U.S. troops are out of Iraq, and U.S.-led combat operations in Afghanistan could wind down by the end of next year. At the same time, the U.S. has pivoted its attention to the Pacific and to an ascendant China. This has not gone unnoticed by the nations in the region.
China – “It is natural to see the US, which is used to being No.1 in the world, feel uncomfortable and even uneasy about China's rise,” says an editorial in the Global Times, a newspaper owned by the country's communist party.
“But they should first realize that the rise of China is inevitable as long as China can maintain a peaceful development environment. In this sense, the most effective way for the US to contain its development is to damage the peaceful environment in China and bring it into chaos.”
China – "The Philippines has signaled during a recent bilateral defense dialogue that it would expand the US military presence on its soil," says another editorial in the Global Times, adding, "China must respond to this move."
"The Philippines is a suitable target to impose such a punishment. A reasonable yet powerful enough sanction can be considered. It should show China's neighboring area that balancing China by siding with the US is not a good choice."
Philippines – “We hope that the ‘hawks’ in Washington realize that there is more to be gained by fostering relations with China than by antagonizing Beijing,” says an editorial in the Manila Times.
“Furthermore, the US should be clearer on what role it expects the Philippines to play. Does Washington want the Philippines to act as a buffer state against China? That would make the Philippines a US pawn.”
Indonesia – “The US will continuously need more Asian allies and partners in this post-Iraq war period in the wake of China’s assertiveness,” says an editorial in the Jakarta Post.
“US partnership with some countries in the region should not be difficult since President Obama has already built friendly relations with most countries in the region, including Southeast Asian nations. The US will become closer to Singapore, a long term-ally, and Indonesia, one of the US’ strategic partners.”
Japan – President Obama missed a key opportunity in the State of the Union to describe the country’s Pacific commitments, says an editorial in the Tokyo-based Japan Times: “Of the much-ballyhooed U.S. ‘pivot’ to Asia, Mr. Obama merely restated that ‘America is a Pacific power.’”
“He made no mention of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an odd omission for an initiative that is supposed to guide U.S. engagement with the most vibrant region of the global economy. U.S. alliances in Asia, the sinews of U.S. presence in this region, got a nod, along with those of Europe.”
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I think there's a chink in our future. Hahahahahahahahaa
Your future ? What're you talking about ?
.......Uhhh, all you can do? A racist remark? No wonder there soo much trouble in the US.
Don't laugh and starting working hard, or else your wife will be going to China to work as a maid.
China's rise is indeed a great thing, considering where it was back in 1950 with it's appallingly low living standards and endless civil wars. Of course it will be long tme before the Chinese military can be an effective counterweight to that of the U.S. in the Pacific since the U.S. spends an appalling amount on it's military which will continue if the right-wing politicians have their way!!!
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William Howard Taft was the first U.S. governor of the Philippines before he became president. Maybe it was a mistake that his administration hadn't turned the Philippines into an American federal state. Today the Philippines seem to be at Beijing's bidding.
Wrong again, j. von hettlingen. The U.S. did the right thing here by not forcing the Phillipines to become one of our states. In fact, the South did have a right to secede back in 1861 but President Lincoln felt otherwise. Moreover, I wonder if anybody thought of the state of California seceeding from the U.S. lately. I guess not!
Thanks to Obama's tie to Indonesia, he has won the hearts of the people there and a strategic partner in the region. Indonesia is half the size of India and has a vibrant demography and economy. Definitely an important ally for the U.S. in the Pacific.
China will be economically more important to ALL the nations of SE Asia than the USA simply because of the huge trade due to proximity but also influenced by cultural and historical connections and diasporas. No SE Asian nation will be able to risk antagonising China because if relations sour their economies will implode. End of story. Bye bye USA. Bye bye from SE Asia.
India is going to be more important than China, and sooner than everyone thinks
Whichever country in the world want to side with US or EU for security reason are freeloaders.
China knows that Philippines, Indonesia or Vietnam can never be reliable partners and they have to be
controlled by money and trade. China will not give them free lunch like the US like to offer and corrupt their leaders by
kick back in buying arms. Instead China has this huge trade with these countries and manipulate their money to suit China objectives.
China knows how freeloaders operate – if you give them free they side with you if you don't they turn against you.
And US is going to have trouble with these freeloader countries very soon as US has no more easy money and plenty of them like in the past, burying all the most corrupt third world countries leaders in pile of money and guns. When China
is able to sift these countries out and when US and western system become less effective with these small countries then China will be able to line them up according to tiers of important to China. China`s aim is to win the fight without a fight.
Is it China's rise or America's decline? Is it gold that's more expensive or is it the dollar that's cheaper? Same old question; Cup half full or half empty?
For the next state of the union address, the President should begin by saying, "For too long now, we have focused more on the state of other nations, than that of our own".
Very true, history has seen the rise as well as the fall and decline of powerful nations. Some are gone for ever, some can rise again like a phoenix out of the ashes. After a century of humiliation, China regains recongnition as a serious global player. The U.S. is momentarily in an economic meltdown, but it iwill no doubt regain its strength.
China is never going to overtake the US, the bigger potential for that lies with India>
أكد وزير الخارجية التونسي رفيق عبد السلام اليوم السبت أن حكومة بلاده اتخذت قرارا بطرد السفير السوري في تونس، فيما أعلن الرئيس التونسي أن بلاده سحبت اعترافها بشرعية حكم الأسد، وذلك في وقت دعا فيه رئيس البرلمان العربي سالم الدقباسي الدول العربية لطرد السفراء السوريين المعتمدين لديها.
وقال عبد السلام في مقابلة مع الجزيرة، إن قرار الحكومة التونسية جاء احتجاجا على المجازر التي جرت وتجري اليوم في حمص وفي غيرها من المدن السورية، وأوضح أن وزارته ستقوم بتنفيذ القرار في القريب العاجل وستستدعي سفيرها في دمشق.
وتوقع الوزير أن تحذو معظم الدول العربية حذو بلاده في هذه الخطوة، وخص بالذكر مصر والمغرب ودول الخليج، وقال "نحن ننسق مع شركائنا في الدول العربية".
I am forwarding your IP to both the FSB and the MSS. Have a nice day.
as a chinese in mainland, to tell the truth, we don't care the so-called china rise or us decline or anything else, we expect a responsible goverment and a stable – harmonious society, which can give her people good social welfare and rising living conditions.
As a chinese from the mainland, you realise that China's rises in the last two decades only because they decided to abandon communism which screwed up its country so badly in the 50s, 60s, and 70s and killed millions of their own people. In turn they brought back the "evil capitalism" which enslaves their own peasants and workers. Yet they allowed only freedom in economy but not democracy in politics, so the cheap under-educated factory workers can't speak out and the government can stay in power.
Would you call that "a responsible government and a stable and harmonious society"?
China as the world's newest super-power,always sees other nations in the same way that they viewed Hong Kong,Macau,Tibet and Taiwan: as chess pieces that should be moved according to their will depending on the international significance. If the Phillipines will become the sane form of buffer zone to what they believe is a wall against Capitalism :i forgot that they practise the same form that same form of economic system that has made China what that it is today!