Archive for the ‘Containing China’ Category
Posted by seumasach on August 17, 2016
Raising the spectre of a Chinese “security”threat is, of course, merely a pretext. Our hostility to China becomes China’s imagined hostility to us. The real issue is systemic: China’s financial system is subordinate to the state whereas our state is subordinate to the financial system. All this has been accentuated post-Brexit: at the same time as we shut out China we are directing more of our own resources to bailing out the financial sector.
Guardian
13th August, 2016
Whether he wins or loses the US presidency next November, Donald Trump has already come up with one of the defining slogans of 2016 – “Make America great again”.
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Posted by seumasach on August 17, 2016
Asia Times
SYDNEY/BEIJING (Reuters) – Australia’s decision to block the A$10 billion ($7.7 billion) sale of the country’s biggest energy grid to Chinese bidders was a protectionist move that would negatively affect investment in the country, China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on August 15, 2016
Voltairenet
14th July, 2016
The Court of Arbitration (the PCA) at the Hague ruled in favour of the Philippines in its case against the People’s Republic of China, rejecting Chinese territorial claims over the Spratly Isles in the South China Sea.
For the Western Press, this is a sign that the United States is right to denounce Chinese expansionism.
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Posted by seumasach on August 13, 2016
Sputnik News
13th August, 2016
Ahead of the upcoming presidential elections in the US, New York-based political analyst Caleb Maupin shares his vision on some of American foreign policy issues, such as relationship with China: he is convinced that no matter who wins, the President elect will be assigned the task of intensifying the confrontation with Beijing. And here is why.
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Posted by seumasach on August 11, 2016
A timely intervention by the Americans just to make sure there’s no backsliding on their post-Brexit, “containment” of China policy for us.
Guardian
11th August, 2016
The Chinese company with a major stake in the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station has been charged by the US government over nuclear espionage, according to the US justice department.
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Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2016
“A purely military containment strategy worked against the USSR since the Soviet Union and its satellites formed an inward-looking economic autarchy, and Western Europe inevitably looked to the US and its massive economy as its only option for economic integration.
Not so in Asia. The PRC under Deng Xiaoping made the decision to eschew the autarchy model and embed China in the world and regional economy.”
That’s why “containment” is more about regime change in countries which engage too closely with China. There have been successes so far in Brazil, Argentina and the UK but these may end up being Pyrrhic victories: the USA offers no alternative developmental model to the enormously successful Chinese one.
Asia Times
9th August, 2016
During his recent trip to the US, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, along with US President Barack Obama, made a joint pitch for the ratification of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. However, the hope that the TTP would form the foundation of a robust and prosperous East Asian security regime centered on economic integration and positive US engagement is fading as China has chosen to react to The Hague ruling by unilaterally redefining its role in East Asia in opposition to the security and economic regime the US is seeking to reinforce.
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Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2016
Britain’s post-Brexit foreign policy: detente with Russia, containment of China. This, presumably, is merely a reflection of US foreign policy- the culmination of the Obama doctrine and the policy basis of the next US presidency. There is a logic here: just as confrontation with both Russia and China is unrealistic, so is detente with both together. If we are to finally bring an end to the Cold War then this is to be applauded. Russia and China cannot be turned against each other: this is not 1972. At the same to “containment” of China may turn out to be just a posture, although a very expensive one, especially for the UK. Washington intends to hold back, Canute-style, the incoming waves of China’s economic development model, partly by mimicking it with a neo-Keynesian policy shift. Neo-Keynesianism in one country is not possible: it has to be carried out globally on the basis of a new global financial architecture, a reset of the global currency system. In the end , constructive engagement with our main creditor and the world’s productive centre is inevitable.
Theresa May speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since becoming Prime Minister
Independent
10th August, 2016
Theresa May has spoken to Russian president Vladimir Putin for the first time since she became Prime Minister.
The Kremlin said both leaders expressed dissatisfaction with UK-Russian relations and pledged to improve ties.
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Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2016
If Trump’s detente with Russia is aimed at driving a wedge between Russia and China it looks like a forlorn hope. As for isolating Russia and China that depends on checking both European and Asian integration, the former now rendered much more difficult by Brexit. The Chinese assessment that Washington’s “devoted efforts towards a global anti-missile shield also reveals an anxiety over its declining influence in the world” is accurate: it is no longer about US leadership but, rather, a retreat into safe space, albeit one as extended as possible. The main active thrust in US foreign policy is now to frustrate Chinese “soft power”, the spread of China’s enormously successful developmental model which the West cannot in any way match. For the moment this has been successful, shifting Argentina, Brazil, Britain and Australia out of the Chinese economic sphere of influence with Venezuela and South Africa next in line. It remains to be seen how long the US can prevail on these countries to abandon their economic interests for a “security” alliance with the USA. The UK’s equivocation about triggering Article 50 is symptomatic of this conflict of interests.
Xinhua
4th August, 2016
BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Both China and Russia oppose the planned deployment of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system on the Korean Peninsula, which endangers their national security and challenges the region’s strategic balance.
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Posted by seumasach on August 6, 2016
Sputnik
6th August, 2016
Despite the recent US charm offensive against India, New Delhi has resisted the temptation, remaining committed to the BRICS ideal of multi-polarity. India maintains mutually beneficial relations with China, regardless of “brief bumps” in the relationship, geostrategic analyst Matthew Maavak told Sputnik.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2016
China is a long-term player in Venezuela’s energy future
Dialogo China
23rd June, 2016
China’s continued financial support of Venezuela’s floundering government through oil-backed loan deals has been the subject of fierce criticism from the Venezuelan opposition, which has already taken steps towards a recall referendum to remove President Nicolás Maduro from office.
By providing a lifeline to a regime with scant financing options in order to ensure preferential access to Venezuela’s enormous oil reserves, China has been accused of acting as a neo-colonial power. The opposition has denounced that closer ties have also paved the way for an invasion of cheap, so-called “made in China” manufactured products which have negatively impacted Venezuelan industry.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2016
WSWS
23rd November, 2015
The opposition Labor Party has stepped forward as the most vociferous critic of the conservative Coalition government’s failure to consult with the Obama administration before a 99-year lease over Darwin’s commercial port was granted to the Chinese-owned Landbridge Group.
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