U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent trip to Honolulu to attend the APEC summit is merely the latest step in what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has dubbed a “pivot” or re-focus of U.S. interest in Asia. But as the United States looks to follow through on the pledge so clearly outlined by Clinton in her Foreign Policy essay in September, attention is again inevitably turning to Asia’s looming economic and military giant – China.
There has been much discussion and speculation in recent commentary over China’s rapid maritime rise and strategy for dominating large swaths of the Pacific, including one I recently penned for The Diplomat. China’s maritime rise is symbolized by the sea trials this summer of its first aircraft carrier, the ex-Ukrainian Varyag, the launch of which is part of a ship building program not seen since Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered Imperial Germany’s High Seas Fleet at the turn of the last century.
China’s naval buildup will soon give Beijing the means to use military force to back up its expansive territorially claims to essentially the entire Yellow Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea. In response, Southeast Asian nations, Japan, India and Australia have all embarked on significant defense force modernization programs of their own, increasing their budgets for major air and naval platforms. Submarines are in particular demand.
Despite using the term “peaceful rise” for almost a decade to describe its global diplomatic, economic and military growth, China hasn’t hesitated to support its territorial claims in the Pacific with what senior American officials have repeatedly labeled as “aggressive” naval action by the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy), Air Force and auxiliary forces. While individual incidents at sea have been reported in regional, maritime, military or, on occasion, the mainstream press, the full extent of China’s efforts to exert control over nearby international waters hasn’t been widely covered in the West. Governments, on the other hand, are increasingly concerned about China’s naval behavior in the region. Indeed, Japan accused Beijing, for the first time, of “assertiveness” in an official government white paper issued in July. Japan’s characterization of Chinese action in an official government document is certainly blunt in “diplospeak.”
As China asserts its claims in the Pacific, it has made no secret of its opposition to U.S. freedom of navigation operations in nearby international waters, and it hasn’t confined its unhappiness to mere diplomatic protests. Instead, Chinese forces have confronted the world’s leading navy at sea in some well-publicized incidents.
Such challenges aren’t wholly new. The first major incident between U.S. and PLA forces occurred just several years after the fall of the Soviet Union. In July and August 1995 and March 1996, in response to certain measures in Taiwan interpreted by China as moves toward Taiwanese independence, China conducted “missile tests and other military exercises” near the Taiwan Strait. In March 1996, the United States responded by sending two carrier strike groups toward the region. China seemingly backed away from confrontation, but many analysts have suggested this was a turning point in PLA thinking.
Tensions would again escalate shortly after the inauguration of U.S. President George W. Bush in 2001. The Chinese interception of an American EP-3 surveillance aircraft flying in international airspace over the East China Sea forced the damaged plane to land at a Chinese military base, triggering a diplomatic incident.
In October 2006, the USS Kitty Hawk was stalked by a 160-foot Chinese Song-class diesel-electric attack submarine, which culminated in the surfacing of the Chinese sub within torpedo firing range of the U.S. carrier. More recently, in late June of this year, Chinese Sukhoi-27 fighters shadowed an American reconnaissance plane, causing Taiwan to scramble two F-16 fighters to intercept the Chinese jets near the central line across the 113-mile wide Strait, the first such incursion by China in 12 years.
But the United States isn’t the only country to have been at the receiving end of Chinese assertiveness. In March, two Chinese gunboats tried to drive away a Philippines Department of Energy research vessel from the Reed Bank in the vicinity of the Kalayaan Island Group, controlled by the Philippines, which is part of Spratlys. The incident prompted the Philippine government to file a diplomatic protest that was summarily dismissed by China. In May, Chinese ships allegedly cut cables on a Hanoi-chartered survey vessel working for foreign oil and gas exploration firms in the South China Sea.
One of the most famous “incidents” relates to reports that circulated from July of this year, when the Indian amphibious ship Airavat was on a show-the-flag mission before being challenged as it sailed from Vietnam’s Nha Trang port near Cam Ranh Bay. A purported Chinese naval officer reportedly radioed the ship that it was entering Chinese waters as it approached Haiphong. While it’s likely that the call was not in fact made by the PLA Navy, the incident has “calcified into fact among Indian commentators” and underscores the danger that incidents at sea can escalate.
As the United States and Asian nations now consider the implications of China’s massive naval buildup and expansive territorial claims in the Pacific, they must do so in light of China’s proven willingness to use its armed forces as a means to enforce such claims. The list of incidents at sea involving the PLA Navy, Air Force and auxiliary forces is especially remarkable in that the confrontations have taken place during a period in which the U.S. Navy has been dominant in the region.
As the PLA Navy continues its impressive growth, and as the United States Navy shrinks as a result of significant cuts in American defense spending, it’s quite possible that Chinese-initiated confrontations will increase if the PLA Navy determines that the balance of forces in the region has tiltedin China’s favor. Indeed, China’s party-controlled press seems to foreshadow such a situation. Discussing the refusal of Asian nations to accede to China’s South China Sea “core interest” claims, China’s Communist Party Newspaper warned last month that if neighboring nations “don’t change their ways with China, they will need to mentally prepare for the sound of cannons. We need to be ready for that, as it may be the only way for the disputes in the sea to be resolved.” This course is fraught with peril for not only the United States and Asian nations, but for an assertive China as well.
In responding to China’s assertiveness, the United States and Asian nations should recognize that maintaining a balance of forces, in which the risk of escalation is too great for China to engage in such conduct, is the best way to deter potentially violent incidents at sea. In an era of a smaller U.S. Navy, achieving this balance can be accomplished, for example, by deploying a greater percentage of American naval resources to the Pacific. This approach is already underway, but should be complemented by encouraging our regional allies to build and/or purchase the air and naval platforms necessary to defend themselves. These allies could also increase their training tempo and the number of joint exercises with the United States military to ensure smooth joint operations in the event of a future conflict.
Yet despite the obvious advantage of assisting the efforts of its friends to enhance their defensive capabilities, the United States has refused to sell Japan and Australia, two of its closest allies, the F-22 Raptor, a fifth generation fighter jet. The United States also bowed to Chinese pressure and refused to sell Taiwan the F-16C/D variant Fighting Falcon, which is a defensive fourth-generation fighter jet. The refusal to arm our allies sends the wrong message to China and our allies. Of course, it also undermines the American military-industrial base, which is already under siege from large cuts in the U.S. defense budget.
On the diplomatic front, the United States must make clear that it will scrupulously honor its defense treaty commitments to Pacific partners such as Australia, Japan and the Philippines. The United States should also continue to side with ASEAN nations who seek to protect their maritime rights under international law and their rights to freely navigate international waters. ASEAN’s effort to implement the 2002 Declaration of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea is also worthy of American support. The July 2011, Bali Guidelines are a small step forward on this front, but more must be done. Backed by American diplomacy, ASEAN’s hand in its negotiations with China on the Declaration of Conduct will be strengthened.
The best ally of peace in the Pacific is a strong United States that is committed to working with its allies to ensure that China’s maritime rise really is a peaceful one.
Robert C. O'Brien is the Managing Partner of Arent Fox Los Angeles. He served as a U.S. Representative to the United Nations. He can be followed on Twitter @robertcobrien. The author notes with appreciation the research work of Richard Buckley on this article. The views herein are his own.
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Cecil
A prominent Chinese economist, Dr. Zhao Xiao was commissioned by his government to study the success of the American economy. He concluded that a moral foundation allowed the economy to flourish, argued that China’s economy would benefit from the spread of the Christian faith, and embraced Christianity himself. He continues to be a respected scholar and government advisor, speaking openly about the influence of Christianity on economics. Our first non-English speaking faculty member, he will lean on a gifted translator to share his thoughts on the relationship between morality and a market economy, the state of the Church in China, and the challenges of leadership as a Christian in a secular Communist country.
Toni
The best way to ensure China’s peaceful rise is to make sure China be China, and not like the West.
ari
This article is nothing but a China hit job with the writer selectively quoting incidents to justify his intention. The question is – Why the need to ensure the peaceful rise of China? Ensure to whose benefit? What do you actually, really mean by “ensure”? Isn’t that actually doublespeak for the Anglo-Saxon White race like America to control China? Why don’t you assess and examine the bad behaviour of the risen power – America? Why don’t you contain it and shape its behaviour? Like a rat in a box, or your prisoners in a prison or concentration camp? Or in a reservation?
That, basically is what the bl**dy American’s strategy is – Put China in a prison and control his behaviour and activities. The kind of control freak and power mad racial American behaviour exhibited to the Japanese in their infamous detention centres for ethnic Japanese Americans.
Last but not least, Indian politicians are liars. They are who-ever-is-in-power anywhere’s fourth column. I am surprise beijing kept quiet on this instead of calling a press conference and threaten New Delhi with war if that Indian Minister – Jaswant Singh – was not sacked forthwith.
Israel
I’m surprised the ASEAN conieruts are not criticized at home for not confining Obama to the APEC meetings and keeping the US out of the ASEAN, since it stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations. He really did try to assert some weight at both meetings it looks like.I bet Roy will want to have something up for the Hillary Clinton visit to Burma. Which according to Google begins on Dec 1. I’m sure they’ll be rounding up all the dissents except for allowing Aung San Suu Kyi to meet with her
Yang zi
Just to show how S. Vietnamese exiles are out of touch with the reality, a new bit of data say Vietnamese prefer Chinese leadership than US, I admit it is a tie, but surprising. From now on, I going to sing praises about Vietnam :)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68667.html
Cam
@yang zi,
The data doesn’t tell you anything, yang zi. I am not scratching my head based on the result of the survey. The way of the survey (face to face interview) conducted is not going to work in Communist Vietnam. Under locals, this is viewed as political involved, communist China vs USA and remember Vietnam is still a communist country, and people are taught supposedly praising Communist China no matter what in the reality, otherwise it could land them to jail. My surprise is it is a tie as I expected it should have been tilted much in China favor. If I were a local, and you are considerably a stranger asking me that kind of question, what do you expect the answer given the communist police crackdown on China protest recently. Of course, the CCP is not naïve enough to believe this survey, just call and ask them yang zi
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Hanoi-cracks-down-on-protests,-50-anti-Chinese-demonstrators-arrested-over-South-China-Sea-22429.html
Observer
Per Gallup Poll, a well respected and well know company, the US is still way ahead of china from the people of ASEAN.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150830/leadership-approval-ratings-top-china-asia.aspx
Yang zi
@Liang1a, you need to relax.
China is not going anywhere. It is never been securer in its national sovereignty. Nobody can contemplate an invasion of China.
So why are you so worked up for? If I were you I would propose following
1. Make sure nuclear force is credible, whatever it may be, as long as China’s defense planners are competent.
2. Plenty of missile defence, air defense, turn old jets into UVAs
3. Plenty of subs and missile boats.
These probably only cost 10 bilion US, very easy to do. Then you focus on making good military hardware, try to take the bigger share of arms export market.
Lukman
As an Indonesian and part of the ASEAN community, one thing that i hope upon this issue, is that it might not led to a some sort of bipolar power concentration in the international politics again. Countries in Southeast Asia had experienced such a confusing era when the Soviet Union and United States compete to stick their influence in the region. It had left countries in Southeast Asia with abundant of traumatic memories.
I believe there is nothing wrong with China’s rise and i really support it as i support any countries that can balancing a single country powers and influences. However, a bipolar power concentration, to me, is even more damaging than letting a single country to preserve their dominance. So it is something that countries besides China and United States need to think of.
ASEAN existence and it’s main mission to create an East Asian cooperation with ASEAN itself as the central player, is one thing that i really support. This centrality means in the future, is not anymore a two states game in Asia Pacific. Countries like Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Brunei Darussalam, or even East Timor have some aspirations to be heard, and these countries’ aspirations will only be matter if their having an effective way of diplomacy. ASEAN surely is the most possible and effective way in doing so.
However, regardless how many regional organizations took places it will going to be considered only if China and United States find it really reliable to be engaged with. Therefore ASEAN should be more active in building such relations with these two superpower and creating the region into a global game changer. Only one thing that ASEAN should be aware of, is to not letting ASEAN itself to be a central field in another influence competition between these two states.
Yang zi
@Lukman,
I don’t think China want to challenge US for world dominance, it want to challenge US’s dominace to China’s affairs. What China is encountering, is a natural development of a rising independent country. India will face it down the road, Indonesia will face it too in the future.
Truth will eventually come out, that is China has no stomach to invade another country, no stomach to behave like US, sending gunboat out for blackmailing. If that happens, I would be the first to protest.
Obama had a good trip, but I am not sure all this will stick. ASEAN China trade grows much faster than ASEAN US trade, China-Japan-S. Korea free trade probably succeeds much earlier than TPP.
a_canadian_observer
@Yangzi: china has already sent gun boats out to harrash Phillipino and Vietnamese fishermen in their EEZ zones. The only difference: those gunboats are disguised as marine surveilance and fishing boats.
Yang zi
@vietnamese-observer, the difference is, those areas are not your EEZs, those are Chinese claimed and administered areas that you have dispute with.
John Chan
@a_canadian_observer,
You must be mistaken the identities, recently there are plenty news about the aggressiveness of the S. Korean navy and marine enforcement units. SK sent war ships (not gun boats) to round up hundreds of hapless Chinese fishing boats in the Yellow Sea. SK media has a heyday to jeer China and cheer their courageous navy.
Observer
@ yangzi – still here and spew out clueless and ignorant statements.
Big bully china does NOT have any rights in the East Sea except the EEZ from the coast of its land, just like any other countries such as Vietnam and Phillipines, per the UNCLOS and The Law Of The Seas.
John Chan
@Observer,
Please be informed that UNCLOS are only applicable to outside of China’s nine-dotted line in the SCS. Philippines and Vietnam inside the nine-dotted line are squatters waiting to be evicted.
Observer
@ jc – should us the readers of the Diplomat take words from you? You know what I am talking about your statement of US F22s are made with china parts.
Should the readers take words from you that said Tianamen Square slaughter in 1989 did not happend? LOL
Big bully china is acting big with smaller neighbors but so afraid of big Russia because china is still unable to get back the land north of Amur River that Russia slaughtered chinese and took it.
Reason
REMEMBER…
It’s the policies of the CCP that are ruining China and taking the Chinese people into another disaster in the South China Seas
WHEN YOU WRITE YOR POSTS – BE SPECIFIC- THE CCP IS TO BLAME NOT CHINA
DON”T FAL INTO THEIR DESIRED TRAP OF BEING A “CHINA BASHER”
THIS “CCP BASHING”
BE A CCP BASHER AND BE PROUD OF IT……
Leonard R.
@Shenliang: “I’m afraid we remain the sick man of asia. Only the sickness has changed. It’s now a strange amalgamation of paranoia, hubris, and militant racism. Perhaps it’s not so strange: it was seen before, in 1937.”
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Congratulations. These are the most accurate & insightful comments I’ve ever
read by a pro-PRC poster here.
Peace would be possible with about 300 million more people who see things like you. Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
John Chan
@Leonard R,
shen liang is as odd as Liang1a. she liang acts same as Wang JingWei, Liang1a acts like 義和團. To an ordinary Chinese, I would rather take Liang1a over shen liang. Liang1a would stop China from being sold out without a fight, but shen liang will.
China’s peaceful rise is to show the world a nation can be strong and prosper without follow the predatory imperialist Westpac’s cruel and ugly path to rise, so please be patient, China will show you the right way to coexist with other people peacefully.
shen liang will say things as though China is irrelevant to him, taking him as a voice of Chinese without scrutiny just prove he is your decoy to bash China with fabricated evidence. It is called perjury in the western juridical system.
Liang1a
When the foreigners talk about China’s “peaceful rise” they mean China rising according to the foreigners’ benefits. That is, China must rise to benefit these hostile enemies of China. If China maintains even one armed soldier, it would not be acceptably “peaceful” to these foreign enemies of China. So China should not even try to satisfy the “peaceful” requirements of these enemies. China should just do what it can to make itself rich and powerful. China does not need to export anything to these foreign blood suckers all anxiously trying to suppress China. China can never win the “approval” of these enemies. Therefore, there is no point in trying. China will always be “threatening” to these foreign enemies until it is put safely in a box that is locked and sealed.
a_canadian_observer
@Liang1a: 100% agree with you. Not only that china should not export anything, it should not import anything either. china is more capable to do everything itself. No need to inetract with outsiders.
Liang1a
a_canadian_observer wrote:
November 20, 2011 at 11:05 pm
@Liang1a: 100% agree with you. Not only that china should not export anything, it should not import anything either. china is more capable to do everything itself. No need to inetract with outsiders.
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Obviously canuck thinks he is clever. The truth is China can produce the most advanced technologies in the world if it only expand its highest education and R&D. American technologies are to a large degree “ethnic-Chinese” technologies since Chinese scientists and engineers now account for some 30% or more of the American scientists and engineers. For example, some 25% to 30% of all recipients of doctorate degrees in science and engineering in American universities are ethnic Chinese with some 5,000 from mainland China alone out of some 22,000. Total ethnic Chinese recipients of science and engineering doctorates probably number 7,000 or more from US universities. Many experts have said that 1/3 of all scientists and engineers in the Silicon Valley, Cal. are ethnic Chinese. Therefore, it is “humanly” possible for mainland China to produce millions of world class scientists and engineers to develop the most advanced technologies in the world. The fact that China hasn’t developed the most advanced technologies in the world in all technological sectors is the fault of the CCP who pursued foreign trade by exporting low tech Chinese products for high tech foreign products. Deng also tried to get Japan and the West to transfer their technologies to China. In the end it was an unrealistic wishful thinking with disastrous consequences. China by being independent developed the most advanced space technologies. But China cannot develop a low tech car to compete with Japan and other foreign car makers. Therefore, it is time for the Chinese to be more self-reliant and stop listening to Chinese compradors who are mouthpieces for foreigners and traitors to China.
China has 2 trillion tons of iron ore reserve. Yet China is squandering its forex reserve to buy billions of tons of iron ore from foreign countries at up to $200 a ton. Even though much of the steel made from the imported iron ore is re-exported, yet China can save a lot of energy by eliminating both the import of iron ore and exports of hubcaps. China would be better off to use its own iron ore to produce products such as houses, cars, washing machines, etc. for its own people to use and then recycle the steel. This would provide more employment while producing more goods and services for the Chinese people themselves.
The West is arrogant and think China will sink back into abject poverty and backwardness without handholding from them. China would only need them if it cannot develop its own high technologies. And it is the Dengists who have kept China backward by overly relying on the foreigners. Once the Chinese can regain their confidence, as they now increasingly are, then they will be more willing to break with the West and chart its own independent rise. China had been the most advanced country in the world for the majority of the recorded history. It is Japan and the West who are the upstarts who only rose in the past 200 years following the industrial revolution. In the 200 years since their rise they had wreaked murderous havoc all around the world including China. It is time for China to resume its historical position as the sole ultra-superpower to stop these unruly aggressors from bullying the world. While the West and Japan are plundering the world, China will rescue these hapless countries from their plundering. Arrogant Westerners like canuck here are only arrogant because they don’t know the advancement China has made even with its “backward” system. Chinese space technologies, engine technologies, avionics, missile technologies, etc. have all caught up with the foreign technologies. Who has the fastest supercomputer in the world? China. China has also made its second fastest supercomputer with chips that it has developed and whose IPR it owns. The West simply does not have the superiority of technologies to justify their arrogance. Especially, now that the West is begging China to bail them out of their economic sickness, what does the West have to be arrogant about? Indeed, arrogance ill becomes a beggar. And certainly China does not need to do any trade with Japan and the West. For China to “trade” is only for it to give free gifts to prop up their crumbling economies. Maybe it can do some foreign trade with developing countries for some minerals just to help them out. The ultimate truth is China can be self-sufficient which is its great and unique good fortune.
Liang1a
Errata:
“China has 2 trillion tons of iron ore reserve.”
This should be 200 billion tons of iron ore reserve. China has made many new discoveries of mineral deposits in the last several years including huge deposits of iron ore. Still, some 70% of China remains unsurveyed for minerals. The probability of new discoveries of vast deposits of all kinds of important minerals is very high.
Below is a quote from an article in peopledaily.com about China’s new iron ore discoveries in 2009:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90778/90860/6939202.html
“China has found 112 potential iron ore prospecting areas that are believed to house over 200 billion tons of iron ore reserves, according to a report on mineral resource surveys in 2009 issued by the China Geological Survey under the Ministry of Land and Resources.”
Liang1a
It is clear from the articles posted here at Diplomat and all the responses and comments to these articles are clear evidence that China will not get anywhere trying to placate these enemies. The more China tried to portray itself as a peaceful nation the more it will be demonized for aggressiveness. In the end, the accusations of aggressiveness is just a continuing ploy to get China to disarm itself so that its enemies can invade it like it was in the last couple of centuries. It is time for the Chinese people to wake up from their rosy dream that the world is a big happy family and that China can join that big happy family and be forever safe. It is time for the Chinese to understand that the final goal of Japan and the West is to weaken and ultimately disintegrate China. The only realistic response to such foreign deadly objective is for China to implement policies to make itself rich and powerful. China is in the unique position to become more powerful than all the rest of the world combined. This is objectively obvious. If the Chinese people can be as productive as the Americans then with 1.5 billion population (by 2050) it will have a per capita GNP of $75 trillion equivalent. But Chinese-Americans are much more highly educated and productive than the average American and have per capita GDP of some $66,000. More than 1/3 of the Americans are blacks and Latinos who produce much less the national average. Therefore the Chinese in China can achieve at least the same per capita GDP than the Chinese-Americans of some $66,000. Therefore, for the 1.5 billion people China can achieve a total GNP of $100 trillion. China can only create such a big economy by relying on its own domestic economy as it should be obvious that China can never be able to do $10 trillion of foreign trade let alone $50 trillion of foreign trade since the total world GDP is only $50 trillion. China’s foreign trade has come to a dead stop in the last several years. Its impressive GDP growth was due to the inflation of the real estate which only threatened to create a bubble and crash the Chinese economy.
China is fabulously rich with mineral resources. It is the number one producer in most of the minerals in the world. It is the number producer of gold, aluminum, tin, rare earth elements, etc. It has millions of tons of lithium carbonate for making hundreds of millions of batteries. It has vast deserts and windy hills to generate vast amounts of renewable energy to make China energy self-sufficient. But China is now being controlled and weakened by its erroneous policies of selling its cheap labor to enrich only a small percentage of its people while making it mandatory to keep the vast majority of the Chinese people poor so that the exports can be cheap.
Therefore, in order for China to finally make itself rich and powerful it must make a sea change and breat with its current economic and foreign policies. It must get out of the WTO and reduce foreign trade. By relying on itself China will be unstoppable. But if China continued to rely on foreign trade then Japan and other foreign countries can easily manipulate and stop China’s growth thus keeping China poor and weak and never be able to deploy the powerful military it needs.
shen liang
With comments like this:
“In the end, the accusations of aggressiveness is just a continuing ploy to get China to disarm itself so that its enemies can invade it like it was in the last couple of centuries. It is time for the Chinese people to wake up from their rosy dream that the world is a big happy family and that China can join that big happy family and be forever safe. It is time for the Chinese to understand that the final goal of Japan and the West is to weaken and ultimately disintegrate China.”
“China is in the unique position to become more powerful than all the rest of the world combined. This is objectively obvious.”
“More than 1/3 of the Americans are blacks and Latinos who produce much less the national average. Therefore the Chinese in China can achieve at least the same per capita GDP than the Chinese-Americans of some $66,000. ”
I’m afraid we remain the sick man of asia. Only the sickness has changed. It’s now a strange amalgamation of paranoia, hubris, and militant racism. Perhaps it’s not so strange: it was seen before, in 1937.
John Chan
@shen liang,
You are willing to remain the sick man of Asia, whichever nation you come from, Chinese definitely are not willing to remain in that painful past. Japanese is taking the title of the sick man of Asia if read enough financial papers in the West.
Pretending Chinese to bashing China is not a honourable thing a Japanese should do. If you are Chinese and want to provide constructive criticism, you need learn about “it is not what you say, it’s how you say it” that will reveal your true intention.
BondJ
That’s just the despairing screams of a wounded predator before falling down for ever!!
Huang
@liang1c?,
I am affraid I have to crack the coconut(rotten from the inside I can tell)so un-suspecting readers would not be fooled by your “old-tricks” regardless of who or what ever you truely are(defintely NOT a Chinese since all signs piont away from everything Chinese). This is one way you think you could pretend to do as those pretentiuosly cowardice characters/clowns often did on this site by the use of names that sound and are typical Chinbese names.
You see,an idiot always beleives he is the smartest one when in fact he/she is not capable of grasping the realities surounding him/her. Another way to call it is ‘self-deception”.
Nevertheless,some components in your fantasy story can be use to drive people like nut by merely boasting or venting them like a mad and very un-happy Chinaman. Hence,”everything under heaven is composed of two opposite sides”, they are differ as days and nights…….
In short, your “fantasy-land” approach is as effective as/for yourself and many others like you on this site. A bunch of losers.