I say China should add targeting coordinates at NEWSWEEK. China and India have traded places as the world's largest economy multiple times in their milleniums of history. At its peak China held 30% of world total economic output. At its peak (since past), the US held 25%. With that historical perspective, we can understand why the west is nervous. After all, the west is worry of the evils it did to the world, including unleashing weapons of mass destruction on Japan. I say built more naval facilities and drive the US out because it Asia is for Asians and that is Chairman Deng doctrine. Now tell me what was Monroe Doctrine over at the US. The US has started more wars in its short life than all the wars China started in the last millenium. Seek truth from facts (Deng), and from that the US is the world's greatest threat.
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An Underwater Threat
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The last three U.S. administrations have based their China policies on hopes about what China might someday become. It is time to face the reality of what China has already created. This means devoting more military resources to the region and strengthening U.S. allies in order to reassure those them and send Beijing the message that the United States is committed to the regional status quo—which includes the maintenance of free markets and free governments across the Pacific. Beijing may not get it, yet. But such a U.S. response would be in everyone's interests.
Blumenthal is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. From 2002 to 2004, he served as senior director for China and Taiwan in the office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
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