President Obama was broadly successful in the Asia-Pacific during his first term. He’ll have to work harder the second time around.
President Barack Obama begins his second term with a new national security team in the making. Although at this time only John Kerry has been confirmed, its seem likely that most, if not all of his key nominees (former Senator Chuck Hagel, John Brennan and Jack Lew) will secure Senate confirmation in the coming weeks.
Obama has clearly resolved to make Asia his priority region on the foreign-policy front. He has spent more time in East Asia than in any other foreign region. Most Asian leaders have welcomed Obama’s reelection, though the political transitions in China, Japan and South Korea increase uncertainties over how long such views will prevail.
During its first term, the Obama administration managed to make progress in resolving some important issues and exploiting valuable opportunities regarding both traditional U.S. allies (such as Japan and South Korea) and emerging partners (ASEAN). In other cases, as with Russia and India, the results have been mixed. But during the next four years the administration faces major challenges in Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, and above all China—for which no easy solutions are available.
The Pentagon has been able to expand defense cooperation with Southeast Asia, especially Singapore (preparations are currently underway for the basing of U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ships at Changi Pier), Indonesia (new arms sales and joint training and education opportunities), and Vietnam (expanding engagement to encompass port visits, joint exercises, and defense dialogues).
Another core element of the Asia Pivot is bolstering local militaries’ capacities to deal with lower-level threats. For example, the Obama administration wants to enhance the air and naval capabilities of friendly maritime states so that they can help protect international waterways from pirates and other threats to freedom of the seas, allowing the U.S. Navy to focus on higher-end threats. To further this goal, the United States is selling 24 F-16C/Ds to Indonesia and coastal ships to the Philippines. Similarly, the United States is helping countries build stronger ground forces to suppress local terrorists and insurgents. Border security programs also extend to encompass the potential movement of nuclear and other dangerous materials to global markets. All these capabilities promote the security of the international air and maritime commons, which serve as the foundation of the global economy.
The Obama administration launched a sustained and largely successful diplomatic campaign to reenergize U.S. relations with ASEAN leaders, who complained that they were being neglected under the previous administration. Obama’s decision to accede to ASEAN’s Treaty of Amity and Cooperation was received very positively by ASEAN leaders, who also benefited from regular meetings with their U.S. counterparts. They also welcomed the administration’s successful outreach effort regarding Myanmar.
Economic ties between ASEAN and the United States made major progress when, in November 2012, Obama hosted talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) initiative at meetings of the East Asia Summit and ASEAN in Cambodia. They set October 2013 as the date when they would like to reach an agreement creating a comprehensive regional trade agreement.
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Kim’s Uncle
It’s funny Chinese keep thinking they can grow indefinitely at 10% forever! How foolish! That’s not very realistic because after a point a country that relies on low value added, labor intensive manufacturing can n will hit a wall! The comparative advantage in low wage will evaporate. It’s called the middle income trap! Country coming from a low base usually grow very fast because the only way up is up! Mao made sure china started off as a toilet so china high growth is by coming out of the toilet!
Now the next phase of industrialization requires growth by innovation through invention and creativity. This is how mature economies grow. They provide a goods n services that match that of what the consumers demand. This has been the process that created companies like Apple! Who have ever heard of iPhone or iPad 10 years ago? Supply creates its own demand!
Clearly China is not in this league! There isn’t one Chinese company that is known throughout the world!!! Not one!!!! So it is laughable to think that china can’t leapfrog the West when it cannot even get out of the low wage manufacturing stage of development. China manufacturing is base of sub contracting work. An iPod cost $140.00 but only $4.00 is attributable to china!!! The design, marketing, supply management, quality control, etc. are all out of china! :). The brainpower is what makes the design while Hands n fingers assemble the product! I think everyone knows where those things are taking place! The brainpower part is definitely not China! :)
When Chinese boast it only makes them look even more stupid n ridiculous because they do not have sophisticated knowledge! When china starts to produce patentable products and ship them to the world’s markets under its own brand then I will take notice but I don’t see that time coming!!!
Sorry little Chinese!
PS: there is not one Chinese company that the world ever even heard of !! What a joke! Maybe Flying pigeon?
vic
If you read the financial newspapers like Wall Street Journal or Financial Times, you would come across a lot of Chinese company names. For a street consumer like you, you buy products not companies. So why should you bother with the name of a company?
John Chan
@Kim,
Whatever China’s growth, it is way better than the American who has to manufacture stats in order to fabricate some manicure growth. Bad mouthing China is not going to reverse USA decline and ever high standing unemployment rate.
You are keep on boasting brand names, yet those brand names cannot pull USA, Japan, Korea out from declining and getting out economic malaise, then what are the brainpower of brand names doing? If the best brainpower USA has is to sink its economy further the drain, it seems the American brainpower is pretty stupid and ridiculous because they do not have sophisticated knowledge.
Yes China definitely is not in the league of USA, Japan and Korea, because they are in a league of decline, carrying excessive debt, and financial bankrupted.
American Patriot
@ John Chan
I'd like to ask you one question, do you even know the definition of bankrupt? If you do, please apply it to the US government.
Also, tell me one more thing; if the USA is bankrupt like you say, why is China buying more and more US bonds? Are you implying that China has no business sense and is buying debt from a bankrupt country? Seems like China is quite stupid indeed.
Kangmin Zheng
US and peace loving countries can't afford to have CCP to start ww3 like German and Japan. We need to contain and clean parasitic CCP.
John Chan
@Kangmin Zheng,
USA government and the Congress are more interested in settling political scores and fiscal cliff brinkmanship instead of paying the bills to keep the school, hospital and social service office open. A government and a Congress do harm to its people like a parasite does harm to the host is called parasitic, USA government and its Congress meet this criterion.
Bankotsu
U.S will pivot to asia pacific, while China will go west towards europe, south asia, central asia, south asia, middle east, africa, caribbean and latin america. This way, there will be less conflict and tensions between U.S and China. It is better this way.
This is called "you go your way, I go my way."
You go pivot to your asia pacific, I go westwards to eurasia, africa and latin america.
mareo2
Engage the leader of the CCP is futile because they take any gesture of diplomatic negotiation as a signal of weakness. For example, Japan send a letter asking a high level meeting for face to face negotiations. The next thing that happen is that one PLA warship aim their weapons to a japanese warship sending any diplomatic effort to the trashcan. The CCP is behaving increasingly like the kim dynasty.
Bankotsu
China should not engage in meaningless competition for influence with the U.S in asia pacific.
It is better and more productive for China to go westwards and elsewhere to build up economic links and influence.
If U.S wants to come and pivot here, let them come, we won't try to block them.
We can also go west or into latin america.
China plays by its own rules while going global
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/02/16/2277866/china-plays-by-its-own-rules-while.html
China's Deepening Interest In The Caribbean
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120805/business/business6.html
3rd China-Caribbean Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum officially launched
http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zwjg/zwbd/t851311.htm
Wen Jiabao wants China-Latin America trade forum
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/1210124/1/.html
CELAC and China Hold First Meeting to Strengthen Ties
http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/celac-and-china-hold-first-meeting-to-strengthen-ties/
UNASUR to strengthen ties with China
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2011-07/28/c_131015292.htm
Emerging Global Partnership: Brazil and China
http://www.siis.org.cn/en/zhuanti_view_en.aspx?id=10099
Uncle Sam
Cry me a river, no kidding the pivot is against china. The other side firepower is obsolete so bring it on…
kaneluo
The key to the success of TPP lies in the actual economic strength and growth rate of U.S., if the current pace of America's growth can not be SIGNIFICANTLY improved, within a decade, the economic weight of China will surpass not just America, but eventually en-route of surpassing all TPP members combined, in that case, the effectiveness of TPP will be greatly hintered and eventually step to collapse.
The current American strategy is very similar to what British Empire had tried in 1950s: establishing trade blocs across the Imperial colonies, in order to balance against the rise of America. However, it would only delay America's dominance instead of stop it, since Britain's own economy was unable to keep up with USA.
Tom F
@kaneluo "However, it would only delay America's dominance instead of stop it"
I concur kaneluo, the American strategy is akind to offering an orange to China to take away the knife. except China will not be interested in the orange. There is no diplomatic dialogue going on here, there is only awkward silence. America must rescusitate its vocal chords, especially in Asia, and historically, it does so very well economically and militarily.
John Chan
@Tom F,
USA is walking the same path of the British Empire, thinking it can manipulate trade and economy with imperialist brutality instead of capacity to offer better trades. British Empire with its vast colonies it could not stay on top because it wasted energy on the effort of maintaining the empire with unproductive brutal forces. USA’s downfall will not be far from behind because America is born out of the Britain.
USA’s only hope to rejuvenate is to abandon its imperialist hegemonic ambition and return its focus on trade and R&D with other nations on the equal terms.
Tom F
@John Chan – "USA is walking the same path of the British Empire, thinking it can manipulate trade and economy with imperialist brutality instead of capacity to offer better trades"
I am going to nibble, because these Dorothy Dixers you're providing are too irrisistible (and I have private views as to your intentions). Historically, the last time the US entered Asia militarily was to dislodge liberate China from Japanese domination and Russian communism from engulfment of Asia/China, no evidence of imperial brutality (especially to China). On the other hand CCP China sponsor the worst possible regime in modern Asia (Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge) and inflicted genocide starting with mostly on ethnic Chinese living in Cambodia because they're educated and are mostly capitalists.
Today, China is using military threats to control an economic zone that involves 6 nations, and is a backer of a 7th to maintain instability and block its peaceful unification. These are the sort of activities that threaten global economic activities, they instigate peaceful nation into military actions. They start wars. The US on the other hand has (unfortunately) left Asia since the end of the Vietnam war, and it has moved on from the bruising loss and is repairing ties with Vietnam. American do however have economic interests in the region, and it MUST protect them, global economic contagion is very real as we have all witness recently.
It is not luck, or incredible resourcefulness, or hardwork that increase China's GDP from $200 bil to $7000 bil in 30 years, an average person can't be that industrious that their productivity go from $200 to $5000 in 30 years. Basic economic 101 says, it's impossible, and history says it's impossible for any inward looking nation with a completely closed loop economy to grow to the degree that China has grown. Chinese growth was mostly due to foreign investments, transfer of technology and skills, and most importantly, the market access provided to China. What China is doing now, threatens that growth, and more importantly threaten world economic activities. There are potential two major victims here, China and its trading partners.
In terms of trade manipulation. My friend, China is the only country pursuing currency pegging, China's trading partners have fully transparent market based currency.
This article is about US in Asia, not China, but as you have seen, it is very difficult to discuss Asia without China's involvement and this does sow a seed of doubt about America's intentions. That is, is America's policy a combination of self interest and altruistic leadership, or is it purely to contain a perceived enemy? I would put my money on the former, because there is only one thing worse than global economic catastrophy, it's catasrophy involving a billion Chinese.
TDawggy
@vic
Well put
Bankotsu
You americans can pivot to the asia pacific all you want. China is going westwards to europe, central asia, south asia and middle east.
No point having petty rivalry with the U.S in asia pacific. Off to the west we go!
Germany and China: The New Special Relationship
http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?storyid=9734
Premier Wen addresses China-Central and Eastern Europe Business Forum in Warsaw, Poland
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2012-04/27/c_131554572.htm
Ukraine would like to get observer status in SCO
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/yanukovych-ukraine-would-like-to-get-observer-status-in-shanghai-cooperation-organization-312045.html
'China's new Look West policy to give primacy to India'
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/china-s-new-look-west-policy-to-give-primacy-to-india_808750.html
Go West: China’s Response to the U.S. Rebalancing
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2013/01/31-china-us-sun
EURASIAN ECONOMIC BOOM AND GEOPOLITICS: China’s Land Bridge to Europe
http://www.globalresearch.ca/eurasian-economic-boom-and-geopolitics-china-s-land-bridge-to-europe-the-china-turkey-high-speed-railway/30575
Toward new glory of Silk Road
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2012-09/04/content_15731384.htm
Sino-Arab trade forum told of trade opportunities in resurgent Middle East
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1036235/sino-arab-trade-forum-told-trade-opportunities-resurgent-middle-east
China-South Asia Business Forum kicks off in Kunming
http://english.sina.com/china/p/2012/0605/473564.html
China-Eurasia Expo opens in Xinjiang
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-09/03/content_15728292.htm
vic
A spade is a spade. The American pivot is a military pivot. The TPP excludes China. These mean that America is on a headlong path against China. It will fail, as what we all need is economic cooperation, not military or economic confrontations. It is not too late for America to readjust its mindset, that America should become a more responsible stakeholder realizing that others have as much rights as she does and that using gunboat diplomacy is not longer as effective as it used to be, simply because the other side possesses significant firepower to match.
ImperiumVita
Well vic, a spade is a spade. China is an Imperial occupier in Xinjiang and Tibet, and pursues military expansion to facilitate Imperial territorial expansion in the waters and islands of its neighbors. It is not too late for China to readjust its mindset, that China should become a more responsible stakeholder realizing that others have as much rights as she does and that using agressive gunboat diplomacy against weaker neighbors is not the way to grow peaceful economic cooperation.
John Chan
American is in the business of imperialism, not in the business of charity; it sees conciliatory manner as weakness; it sees destruction without mercy is its divine right to teach the weak to dance its tone; it considers resistance as aggression, …
Build babe build is the only way to keep one’s independence.
Bankotsu
That's why I say China needs at least 12 aircraft carriers. U.S has allocated 6 carriers for China, but Chinese naval tech is weaker, so China needs at least a 2 to 1 advantage in carriers. This means China needs 12 carriers.
ImperiumVita
John Chan you got it messed up. Europeans are Divine Right (not so different from the "Mandate of Heaven", the USA is Manifest Destiny
vic
Yes, everyone has a motto. Except, the USA goes evangelical, preaching and pushing others to accept her way of how everyone should behave for America to fulfill its "Manifest Destiny" of conquering the world. Her overseas military bases are there to ensure her mastery of the world. But unfortunately for USA, she is running out of funds; and as history has shown, over-extension due to over-confidence brings about a downfall of an empire.
BB
@vic,
FYI.
(CNSNews.com) May 11, 2012- The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world’s proven reserves combined, an auditor from the Government Accountability Office told Congress on Thursday.
The GAO testimony said that the federal government was in “a unique position to influence the development of oil shale” because the Green River deposits were mostly beneath federal land.
It also noted that developing the oil would have an environmental impact and pose “socioeconomic challenges,” that included bringing “a sizable influx of workers who along with their families put additional stress on local infrastructure” and “making planning for growth difficult for local governments.”
“The Green River Formation–an assemblage of over 1,000 feet of sedimentary rocks that lie beneath parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming–contains the world's largest deposits of oil shale,”Anu K. Mittal, the GAO’s director of natural resources and environment said in written testimony submitted to the House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
“USGS estimates that the Green River Formation contains about 3 trillion barrels of oil, and about half of this may be recoverable, depending on available technology and economic conditions,” Mittal testified.
“The Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, estimates that 30 to 60 percent of the oil shale in the Green River Formation can be recovered,” Mittal told the subcommittee. “At the midpoint of this estimate, almost half of the 3 trillion barrels of oil would be recoverable. This is an amount about equal to the entire world's proven oil reserves.”
In her oral statement before the subcommittee, Mittal said that developing the shale oil would create wealth and jobs for the country, but also challenges for government.
“Being able to tap this vast amount of oil locked within this formation will go a long way to help to meet our future demands for oil. The U.S. Geological Survey, as you noted, estimates that the formation contains about 3 trillion barrels of oil of which half may be recoverable,” she said.
“As you can imagine having the technology to develop this vast energy resource will lead to a number of important socioeconomic benefits including the creation of jobs, increases in wealth and increases in tax and royalty payments for federal and state governments,” she said.
In her written testimony, Mittal noted that three-fourths of the Green River shale oil is under federal land.
“The federal government is in a unique position to influence the development of oil shale because nearly three-quarters of the oil shale within the Green River Formation lies beneath federal lands managed by the Department of the Interior’s (Interior) Bureau of Land Management (BLM),” she testified.
What do you think, vic? This is just in the Green River Formation. Other places in Texas, North Dakota, Pensylvania etc. several hundred billion barrels of recoverable shale oil have been found. Just talking about oil & gas (not other aspects such as advanced technology, entrepreneurship, etc.) , can China compete with the US in the long run? Of course not, right?
US’s Aggression : Repeating The Cycle
IV, is that you talking or Washington's mouthpiece talking? The obligatory "Xinjiang" and "Tibet" issue which the CIA is entrusted to instigate? Get an honest job you sod. Stop behaving like the US Calvary against the native Indians. Because that's exactly what you are doig as a mouthpiece of the CIA.
Dean
@vic,
You want to be a responsible stakeholder? Good! Respect all the international law & norms & play by the rules of the game. Remember commie China is not the world & your 'sino-centric mentality' should be thrown into the garbage afap to save the world from hellish conflagrations & destruction.
John Chan
@Dean,
USA is not a nation respecting all the international law & norms & play by the rules of the games, it draws up a kill list without transparency and uses unmanned drones to kill indiscriminately on the list as well as hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians along with it; the USA does not respect other nation’s sovereignty in according to the international laws and simply walked in bombed and killed them into total destruction; the USA did not respect the international norm and rules of the games by bringing the whole world financial market to meltdown in order to enrich a few of goons on the Wall St.; …
If China had done what the USA did in terms of respecting all the international law & norms & play by the rules of games, the world would have gone into Armageddon long time ago.
USA is a rogue nation and the gang like Japan, UK, the Philippines, etc. follow it are VEO(Violent Extremist Organizations).
Jean-Paul
@ John Chan
Why can't you take some responsibility for China's actions for once? You have to realize that the USA is not the only nation that has committed war crimes and that Russia and China are just as guilty. For example, due to the Chinese government incompetence in the 1950s and 1960s millions of chinese had starved in the great leap forward.
You have to understand that in order to bring about peace and prosperity, the world needs to work together, if everyone pointed fingers and bashed like you always do, then the world would have died in a nuclear inferno decades ago during the cold war.
The west does not want to see the world die in a nuclear inferno like you do however. John Chan, why can't you forgive the great western nations and peaceful Japan for once? Can't you let go of the hatred inside you for once? Did you know that in the 1980s the west and Japan actually wanted to forgive China for its communist past and reset relations? America, the UK and especially France want to let go of the past and work towards a better future with China. France and the UK are trying to make amends for their imperial past and are now among the top 10 most peaceful nations on the planet. Can you finally forgive them?
Dean
@Chan & Vic,
Historically, perhaps there's only one nation in the world daring to claim the global commons, the international waters/waterways or others' territories as its own ponds or properties: It's the very communist China! Like the Nazi Germany in the 1930s, commie China has advocated & supported expansionism to gain Lebensraum ("living space") as being a law of nature for all 'healthy and vigorous peoples of superior races ( Han chinese!) ' to displace people of inferior races to solve their own overpopulation crisis & security issue.This is the root cause of the destructive WWII & now maybe the potential one of WW3? Hence, never let history repeat itself! The US' currently rebalancing to Asia, the informal liberal alliance of Japan, India, Australia & Asean, & especially the TPP, US-EU trade pact & other regional free trade agreements, all have served to deter China's expansionist hegemonic ambitions that could bring war & destruction to the whole region & to the world as well.
John Chan
@Dean,
Change subject again, and no more discussion on respecting all the international law & norms & play by the rules of the games, because it is a shortage of the USA?
Please debate based on facts, not by conjecture thru the thin air. Shame on you employing Hollywood style propaganda script in a debate that affects the wellbeing of human beings.
Dean
Chan,
Yes, your China's always ' respected & abided by the international law & norms & played by the rules of the game' by having blatanly laid claim to the international waters (ECS,SCS,etc.), the global commons open to all nations in the world, and to other states' territories in the region ( 'chinese indisputable historical rights over them!'); by having manipulated its currency for its export advantage, by subsidizing its exports to unfairly gain access to the global markets, by blocking foreign products' & services' accessing the chinese market, by stealing foreign IPs, by forcing technological transfers from foreign companies doing business in China, by disrepect for human rights, by pursuing 'neo-colonialism policy' in Africa, etc. And the list just goes on & on! In terms of Lebensraum & expansionism, just go ask your leaders & especially your ' paramount leader', chairman Mao ( sorry, dead already!), who has once said he would lead 500+ millions of poor Chinese to conquer the SEA & Asia for the 'living space' for an overpopulated China! Is this clear enough for you, Chan?
Cyrus
Really? Hundred of Thousands with drones? where did you get that? Oh, btw I believe more has died in the hands of the Chinese Empire from Qin to the present CCP.
Tom F
@Vic – "A spade is a spade. The American pivot is a military pivot. The TPP excludes China. These mean that America is on a headlong path against China"
You're assuming that military/economic are exclusive domains. The free world thinks otherwise. Military relation and trade relations are very closely interelated. You go to war so your nation do not starve yes?
It is unfortunate, but China, under CCP controls, is being viewed as the sole disruptor (to put it mildly) to stable global economic activities. Maritime disputes affects trade routes, money laundering affects financial market stability, sovereign investments in strategic assets brings suspision of intentions, selective (subjective) administration of the rule of laws affects all facets of global trade. These are the things that paint China into a corner.
Attacks on foreign factories and sales channel, (wholesale) attack on IP, attack operational infrastructure, projection of force in the South China Sea, attack on environmental integrity of neighbouring nations, manipulation of money markets….The list of affected companies include the who's who of modern commerce, Honda, Toyota, Sony, Dyson, Apple, Google….These are the sort of things that can grind away at global economic activities.
America must protect its market, and investments (and so do the rest of the free world). It is a pity that the previous administration dropped the ball (and focussed on energy security) rather than the defense of US markets only to be proven very wrong because the US is essentially on an energy renewal and possibly could become an energy superpower this decade. America is the leader of the freeworld, it has no choice but to protect free mercantilism, and in fact, it must do more than just install bases in Asia as that will only play into the CCP's hands, a foreign enemy unites the country like no other.
American mercantilism has already suffered as a direct result of China's intentions and actions, it's only diplomacy that stands in the way of remedy, and that can not come soon enough not just for America, but for the free world.
One must wonder, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, countries with strong historical and cultural links to China, DO NOT trust CCP China. Korea, Japan, Asian countries, DO NOT trust China. Finally, Vietnam, a communist country with a long bloody history with America, DO NOT trust China. If America needs any proof or sign of China's intention, look no further than its neighbours. If America takes no action, global economic activities will come to a grinding halt, with China and Chinese most affected, and you know how people like a war when they're hungry.
Be Way
@Tom
What a long and crappy comment that is full of lies, distortions and fictions
1. China, under CCP controls, is being viewed as the sole disruptor to stable global economic activities
From North to South, from West to East, from the developed nations in Europe to the deep jungles of Amazon as well as to the driest Sahara desert, never in the history of mankind, can one nation take its pre-eminence role so well to bring forth all the good tidings of forture and prosperity to all the nations in the world. From the free flow trading of cheap goods of good quality to the most advanced satellites, all mankind especially those poor, undeveloped or defenseless, can now enjoy and savor a life of reasonable modern living. Not only that, in addition the good samaritan brings no arms, harm no one and treated everyone as equal partners in the objective of a fruitful and mutual beneficial relationship. That good samaritan is CHINA.
2. Attacks on foreign factories and sales channel, (wholesale) attack on IP, attack operational infrastructure, projection of force in the South China Sea, attack on environmental integrity of neighbouring nations, manipulation of money markets
If history is our guide to our past experiences, mankind must always remember the tragic incidences of their unspoken suffering, slavery, exploitation and inhumane humiliation under the centuries of Western Colonialism. China like most of the countries being colonised, suffered the same fate, being tormented endlessly without fail, from the treachery and treason from the Western Imperialists as well as from brutal fascist Japanese. It's a lesson too painful to learn and to forget. Sad to say that the world is not free from the clutches of the warmongering hegemonic Western Imperialist-Fascist Japan axis of evil. This Axis of Evil will continue to propagate their propaganda of lies, deceit and misinformation against any nation that doesn't toe to their domination and supremacy. They invaded sovereign nations with impunity, leading to millions of people being killed or suffered under unbearable miserable lives. Unfortunately nothing is going to stop them. If there is any hope for the future of mankind that is free from the total domination of this brutal Axis of Evil, we can only count on the humanitarian hands of Russia-China-India cooperation and support. Without with, we will facing a world of darkness and hopelessness where evils dwell on all mankind.
ImperiumVita
Be Way, how can you with any intellectual honesty bring up the worst of European colonialism but forget to mention the active repression and denigration of indiginous cultures in Xinjiang and Tibet? Can you comprehend that the Europeans' "Civilization to savages" reasoning is highly analogous to China's "We saved them from feudalism and look at all that development we've brought." excuses toward repression of culture in its western/occupied provinces?
Your post is largely hysterics anyway. carry on.
Be Way
@ImperiumVita,
What is wrong with China rational and liberal management of Tibet and Xinjiang. We are talking about the majority of the Tibetans and residents in Xinjiang (Uyghurs are just one of the minority natives in Xinjiang) who wanted to live not out of fear but in a safe and peaceful environment. Perhaps it's your impaired thinking and vile wishes that China should let a few terrorists to run wild, hijacking and burning the whole province down to ground that you are expecting enthusiastically
Carry on too, with your sadistic and perverse thinking. China has no plan nor the need to listen to your frivolous exhortation.