The Xinhua commentary confirms Dutton’s analysis:
The disputes over rights and interests in the East China Sea, Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea are the remnants of the history of invasions of China from across the seas and colonial rule. But China’s claims are based fully on historical facts. Its territorial sovereignty, strategic resources and trade routes comprise its core interests, and like any other country China will never compromise them.
Rapid economic development and rising national strength have given China the chance to make it clear to the international community that it will never compromise its core interests.
Beijing made the EZ sovereignty argument in 2001 after one of its fighter jets intercepted and collided with a U.S. Navy EP-3 surveillance plane over international waters. The American plane was forced to make an emergency landing on Hainan Island where the aircraft, with its advanced technology, was taken apart before the crew was released. In March, 2009, a group of Chinese vessels aggressively challenged two unarmed USN survey ships in international waters off the southern coast of China. And in June 2009, a Chinese submarine rammed a sonar buoy being towed by a USN destroyer near the Philippines. American policy has long been to sail through disputed waters to maintain the principle of freedom of the seas.
Beijing is particularly adamant that the U.S. strike group, led by the nuclear aircraft carrier George Washington, based in Japan, not enter the Yellow Sea as part of the joint allied exercises. A July 16 editorial in Global Times stated:
The US claims that the joint drill is to serve as a deterrent against North Korea after the sinking of a South Korean battleship. Yet it clearly knows that launching a war game off the western coast of South Korea will also be considered a hostile move against China.
As trade and financial ties between the two countries deepen, China will have much more leverage to launch counter measures. Growing nationalistic sentiment in China will also push the authorities to act tougher.
China will be less tolerant of similar acts, though in the past the US enjoyed relatively freer passage around Chinese territorial seas. Washington should no longer underestimate Beijing’s resolve to challenge US military provocation.
China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy held its own “live fire exercises” from June 30 to July 5 in the East China Sea, the gateway to the Yellow Sea.
Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell has stated that while the U.S. “respects and considers China’s views,” it will not be deterred from holding the exercises. “This is a matter of our ability to exercise in the open seas, in international waters,” said Morrell at a July 14 press conference. He asserted:
Those determinations are made by us, and us alone. Where we exercise, when we exercise, with whom and how, using what assets and so forth are determinations that are made by the United States Navy, by the Department of Defense, by the United States Government.
Brave words, but in practice, it seems the Pentagon (or the White House) has been intimidated by Beijing to keep major warships out of the Yellow Sea, even though that is where the South Korean corvette was attacked.
The joint U.S.-ROK exercise is code-named “Invincible Spirit,” but this may be more hype than reality. Adm. Robert Willard, head of Pacific Command stated at the July 20 press conference in Seoul that “this is the first in a series of exercises that are intending to send a very specific signal to the North Koreans as a consequence of the Cheonan incident.” Future exercises were promised for the West Sea, but no date was given. When Adm. Willard was asked whether the George Washington would take part in the future operations in the west, he replied, “We’re not going to discuss the particulars of the follow on in the series of exercises.”
It should be noted that the Yellow Sea was never mentioned at the press conference; the term “West Sea” was substituted. The need to appease China cast a shadow over the entire proceedings. And the next day, the Chinese Foreign Ministry again stated, “We resolutely oppose any foreign military vessel and planes conducting activities in the Yellow Sea and China’s coastal waters that undermine China’s security interests.”
If President Barack Obama kowtows to Beijing and keeps the carrier strike group out of the Yellow Sea, the naval exercise will be a show of weakness rather than of strength. It will not deter future aggression by either North Korea or China. Instead, it will encourage future challenges as the communist regimes detect a change in the balance of will (if not yet actual power) in Northeast Asia.
I would like to see Chinese aircraft carriers floating near Washington on international waters, I guess if the US gets annoyed and China can call US the "aggressor".
I would like to see a small nuclear device land on th edeck of a Chinese aircraft carrier ( if they have one) . We will have to fight these bastards one day.
The US military just shows it has no morality. China should be more assertive in dealing with the US like Iran.
Yes, and the Communist Party of China has morality by supporting Kim Jong il and every other thug state in the world, not the mention the appalling human rights abuses they commit on their own people. Now the Communists are claiming that the Yellow Sea belongs to them.
I hope one day the US military smashes the Communist National Socialist regime of China so the Chinese people can be free and the world can be a safer place.
Their time is coming, just as the Soviet's time came. After Obama, we will have another Reagan who may choose to target China.
Yes, I would like the Chinese to deal with us in exactly the same way as Obama is dealing with the Iranians i.e. bending over and kissing our a$$
So China should show more support for the genocidal Iran?
Let's see (puts Red China in one hand and the U.S. armed forces in the other):
For morality (holds up Red China hand): China?
(Holds up U.S. military hand): U.S. military?
Oh, the difficulty; decisions, decisions…
How can the US with 200 years of history tell China with thousands years of history what to do at China's backyard? This is so ridiculous! Chinese people is so incredibly passive and useless.
It's sort of like when Red Chinese "volunteers" about 300,000 of them, came streaming into North Korea to fight the U.N. back in 1951.
Or when the Red Chinese Army rolled into Tibet and make the Dalai Lama a refugee, which he still is, to this day.
Or when a U.S. aircraft landed in China, and the Red Chinese made sure to delay its return to the U.S. until they had taken it completely apart and put it back together again.
Or when, in the 1948 upheaval, Mao Tse-Tung took American missionaries and put them in prison and tried to brainwash them.
Or when the Red Chinese brainwashed U.S. POWs in the Korean War and persuaded one or two of them to actually stay in North Korea and Red China.
Or when U.S. troops were taken prisoner during the Vietnam War and wound up in Red Chinese re-education camps. As far as I know, they haven't been heard from since.
The US military is the only reason you guys aren't speaking German, Russian or Japanese. Go USN!
Not just the US, England, Canada and all the other allies
That means the Aussies have bigger stones than we do. They stood up to the chicoms and sailed right through. The commies own hussein, I bet he goes to them for help winning the '12 election like carter did with the soviets (who turned him down, much to their eventual regret).
Hey look, the three chicom stooges got here first. One wants chicom carriers cruising off DC. Another says the US military is immoral and the mad mullahs are to be emulated. The third thinks our exercises off the coast of prk (which is still at war with us) is telling the chicoms what to do, wishes the chicoms were more aggressive, and despises the Chinese people. Hilarious.
We already have ample evidence of how the world would be under China's tutelage. Beijing looks the other way at genocide in Darfur as the Chinese expand their economic and political links with Sudan's repressive government. The same is true of China's relations with monstrous regimes controlling North Korea, Burma and Zimbabwe.
In short, China's foreign policy is governed not one iota by moral considerations. In fact, the only consideration seems to be self-aggrandizement. For all its faults, the US has tried to isolate the worst human-rights offenders around the globe. I rue the day when China has supplanted the US as the world's premier super-power. Certainly, the world WON'T be a better place.
The Annoited One speaks about economic recovery and jobs…
Whenever you find an MADE IN USA tag anywhere, play the lottery as you will win …
What does it take to bring back the MADE IN USA tag ??
We all know why are RED CHINA products so cheap…
Therefore, shouldn't be the rol of OUR govmt. to enact protective import barriers to bring
back manufacturing to the USA ???
There is not a garment made in the USA any longer and I'm affraid that even American babies come now from Beijing and not PARIS, as we were made to believe as
children
HAVEN'T WE BUILT ENOUGH ALREADY A COUNTRY WHICH IS NO FRIEND OF OURS BY ANY STREAK OF THE IMAGINATION ??
HOW CAN WE AS A NATION BE SO DAMNED STUPID ???
Your right however that is the cost of being in a global economy, Free enterprise allows companies like Walmart to import goods and the American people love it, can we have a Walmart without China? That's just one example Apple is another one then there is DELL and on and on. I think this is getting off topic, but I do see your point
When Sam Walton was alive, he tried to stock Wal Mart with as many products as possible that were mande in the USA.
Don't buy thing made in China!!!!
Cheap imports from Red China are cheap because they're made by slave labor.
Some of those slaves are people who carried their papier-mache Statue of Liberty in Tienanmin Square, demonstrating for liberty.
My family and I refuse to buy anything made in China. I really don't care much about how they treat theit own people; I don't like what they're doing to our economy and stealing military secrets, etc. It's difficult to not buy things from China, but it is possible.
What about the computer you are using? All computers are made else where not in the US, and if it says it was made in the US check the parts they are now allowed to state made in the US, when in fact it was only assembled here. I recently found out that some Pontiac models are made in South Korea. The US and Canada are slowly getting away from dirty manufacturing because of health risk, that's why they don't mind countries like China to do the dirty work, remember rubber maid, I think they do very little manufacturing in the us anymore. There are benefits for some products to be made else where!
First off no-one really knows what is going on behind closed doors! We have to rely on the media for the truth and the poker faced politicians with all their scripted dialogue. To dig deep into situations you really have to know about the history of every region throughout the world; when dealing with violence, war, human rights. etc… It is always the outcome that spells it out and I am not about to make any predictions, my only hope in such a situation is peace! But sometimes war is the only option left for peace, sad but true!
Who knows?? Perhaps it's the Red Chinese that are pulling Obama's strings??
Somebody sure is!
The Chinese have been smart. By opening to the West, China has reaped the benefits of capitalism. However, the Communist leadership has subsidized its industries to undercut all other nations including ours. They have rejected, however, western democracy. Don't think for a minute that the Chinese people will trade in their better lives for the right to free speech, press, assembly, etc. If we continue as a debtor nation to them, they may wind up owning this country, or at least Alaska or Hawaii.
A good point, but China owning the means of production in their own country eventually means problems. For one, as capitalism grows in China, people are going to clamor for better labor standards, better wages, ,etc. With a potential middle class of 600 million people, China is going to be busy trying to put those fires out. Secondly, India is a much freer and in some ways more productive economy that we should be supporting more, and they are going to butt heads with China in that region. There will come a point when China will reject borrowing money from us, but a rebound from us won't take as long as people think. We are still more productive than the Chinese, as a recent economic report suggested. We just have to realize that technology, defense, and the freest market on earth can guarantee our survival. They are all interrelated and impossible to maintain without freedom. Which is why China cannot match us as long as we remain free.
As a power, the Chinese will only get stronger. Think how many scientists they can produce in a population over a billion versus the 300 million of the US. As they flex their muscles, the US can not play the role it has played in the past. We may need to to pull back on our interest zones. Financially, we may have no choice. We will need to get skilled with diplomacy. A strong India, Japan and Australia may help the US contain Chinese ambitions. I would prefer that China would be more responsible as a power, but it backs the regimes of North Korea, Sudan and Iran, all of which are enemies of US policy. I fear what will happen if the US has to confront the Chinese in areas of major concern. Obama will probably opt for bowing to President Hu of China.
I guess China supported Iran, Sudan for the same reason why the US supported the Talians during the mid 1980's and 1990's. It's not that the US liked the Talibans, because they both were USSR's enemies, so called "enemy's enemy is my friend" theory. 20 or more years from now, things will definitely change. I can see one day Sudan and Iran aligned with US, and be on the other side of China. Isn't it true that some 30+ years ago, Iran was on the US side and Iraq was on the USSR side. After the hostage crisis, US, USSR, Iraq and Iran switched sides.
Obama only bows to those who have a superior intellect or who have credentials that far outstrip his own. Point in fact, last week he was found Bowing to the Burger King.
For those who talk in favor of China. Have you seen its territorial on water claim? It is ridiculous and a blatant attempt to seize the islands and water areas that belong to the nearby countries, as well as cutting off marine travel path for many other countries including the US? if this is tolerated, China will basically extend its domination throughout Asia and the Pacific.
When China laid claims to those islands immediately after WWII, some of the countries there were still colonies of some western countries. There wasn't a Singapore until 1960's, Viewname became fully indepent rather late as well, not to mention that part tof Vietnam had been China's territory before the French seized and colonized it. Malaysia was part of Brit's colony as well.
How do those islands "belong" to those other countries? The sovereignty of those islands have been DISPUTED for hundreds of years. You're saying China wants to extend its sovereignty over those islands but what do you think Vietnam and all those other countries are trying to do?
We are deeply in debt to the Chinese…one of the most agregious violators of human rights.We really have minimal leverage. The Socialist-in-Chief has an agenda….the US definitely won't be doing anything to upset the Reds. It's amazing actually, Rome incrementally declined to mush over several centuries…..we are doing it in just a couple of years under BHO and his henchmen…with repercusions felt for decades. The stage is being set for Gingrich to run.
The Communist Chinese own a big piece of the U.S. economy. We better be careful about how we treat them these days.
Who would have thought we'd have reached this pass?
Where are the moralists who criticize the U.S. for playing ball with the USSR during World War II now that we're kow-towing to Red China. Mao murdered just as many as, if not more than, Stalin.
Who cares about the Red Chinese doing it to their own people? I do, at some point. Certainly I care when the number of murdered reaches 38,000,000 or so.
instead of maneuvers maybe we should hace a Fleet Week and have a liberty leave party in the North Korea. if it were not for the PRC then NK would be notheing on the int'l stage. why does't China just invade NK and set-up a new province or offical protectorate. let the NKs be a Chinese problem.
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Of course Obama has to bow to China, who else is going to buy his debt to waste on rubbish.
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