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| Time for China to Assume The Position: A Pax Sinica in the Middle East? |
| 2013-10-29 |
| by Spengler I have no idea how China envisions its future role in the Middle East. Americans will learn the intentions of the powers who gradually fill the vacuum left by Washington's withdrawal from the world "well after the fact, if ever", as I wrote on September 16 (See US plays Monopoly, Russia plays chess, Asia Times Online). That is why I have retired from foreign policy analysis. It is helpful, though, to take note of what the rest of the world is saying, particularly when not a single English-language source made reference to it. Der Spiegel's public call for China to assume a leading geopolitical role in the Middle East, though, did not appear out of context. American commentators have regarded China as a spoiler, the source of Pakistan's nuclear weapons technology, Iran's ballistic missiles, and other alarming instances of proliferation. It is worth considering a radically different view of China's interests in the lands between the Himalayas and the Mediterranean: no world power has more to lose from instability than does China. |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #2 Methinks Beijing will be focusing eastward toward East Asia + WESTPAC very soon, + for violent reasons. To wit, * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [People'S Daily Online] PEOPLE'S DAILY: OUTBREAK OF REGIONAL WAR [China-vs-Japan] IS POSSIBLE. * RELATED SAME > [FNOTW.org] SINO-JAPANESE WAR OR CHINESE-JAPANESE WAR. STRUGGLE IN THE 19TH + 20TH CENTURY [now 21st?] BETWEEN CHINA + JAPAN OVER PREDOMINANCE IN ASIA. "There can only be One"??? * SAME > [Yahoo News = AFP] CHINA COAST GUARD KEEPS HEAT ON JAPAN IN ISLAND ROW. * INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA MILITARY VOW "COUNTERATTACKS" IFF JAPAN SHOOTDOWNS ITS DRONES | IRDW.org. * SAME > [NDTV] JAPAN SCRAMBLES FIGHTERS AFTER CHINA [PLA] FLIGHTS TWO DAYS IN A ROW. 2 H-6 Bombers, 2 Y-8 Recce get too close to Okinawa + Miyako Island FOR Japan's comfort. * SAME > CHINA: JAPAN BREAKING "STATUS QUO" OVER DISPUTED ISLANDS. versus * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > POSTER THREAD: ENEMY AT THE GATE ... NOW YOU PEOPLE ARGUE WITH ME THAT CHINA DOES NOT NEED A "BREZHNEV-STYLE" [massive Soviet = Cold War] MILITARY BUILDUP, agz the US-Allies; CHINA NEEDS A [hardline] LEADER LIKE LEONID BREZHNEV 1964-1982 | US "PIVOT TO ASIA GAINING STRENGTH: US ADMIRAL. USN RADM. Mark C> Montgomery. * SAME > SHOULD CHINA CONSIDER EVACUATION PLAN [all Chinese citizens-nationals] FROM JAPAN? * TOPIX > [Korea Herald] CHINA FLEXES MIGHT WID SHOW OF [long-secret] SUBMARINE FORCE. * RELATED SAME > AS TENSIONS WID JAPAN RISE, CHINA SHOWS OFF ITS NUKE SUBS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-10-29 23:55 |
| #1 How do you say "seek your suckers elsewhere" in Mandarin? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-10-29 05:27 |