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"Who’s Bold? Who’s Ignoring Obama’s China Rollback Strategy?"

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Blogger denk said...

**What it doesn’t have is what the U.S. has: military reach, moral leadership, heft in the global financial markets .....**

moral ? dud u actually say that ch ?
did u forget the quotation marks by any chance ?

9:58 PM

Blogger Ziad said...

That's a very good analysis, but I'm not sure it will work out as US policy makers hope.

1) While Obama has definitely improved American diplomacy, and while China isn't quite the economic juggernaut of lore, it is still not 1998. China, by any measurement is much stronger, the US is much weaker.

2) So far, despite 7 years of threats of war and sanctions, the US has failed to intimidate Iran. But they think they can scare China??

3) Even more, they can't even get Brazil to toe the line on Iran. Are they going to isolate Brazil too? And how about old reliable Turkey? Even they seem eager to befriend Iran and don't seem terrified of the consequences.

4) Japan, the linchpin of US China containment, is make some moves towards China. They are even making previously unheard of noises about removing US bases. Also, as to Toyota gets trashed in the US over largely contrived or greatly exaggerated problems, the Chinese market most look awfully good.
(Do you think the two might be related?)

The US really does not have much Leverage against China. Sure, there is Taiwan and the Dali Lama, but having already sold the weapons and met the Lama...leverage is useless once used.

Holding lots of Treasury debt isn't the advantage it might have seemed before, but so what? What can the US do? Default? Start a trade war? The first is financial Armageddon and the second will bring bond and stock markets in the US to their knees. Debtor nations don't start trade wars. There is almost nothing the US can do to China economically.

OTOH, China does have a huge and painful leverage point against the US. Obviously, that is Iran, if China ever gets bold.

While the US currently spends extraordinary resources to ensure continued Israeli dominance, and to keep client states Egypt and Jordan in line, China can get a powerful strategic asset at a bargain price. Unlike the US and Israel, China need not give Iran anything. All will be paid for. It need only sell weapons and technology.

By doing so, China will make money, gain a powerful ally in a strategically vital area, and it will force the US to spend even more to keep Israel sweet. And as a bonus, Iran may even offer up some middle man influence in Iraq. That ensures a very good energy source for China well into the future.

What is more...looking at a map, it seems possible, even if highly improbable, to build a gas/oil pipeline from Iran, across Afghanistan and into China. Iraq might also feed some oil into the pipeline...Checkmate.

Don't laugh. Iran has plenty of influence in Afghanistan and the US will have to leave sooner or later. Hopefully, not until they have sufficiently weakened the Taliban.

In short, the US will have no chance of truly isolating China. Europe may say bad things about them, but they can take it in stride.

PS. Have to agree with denk about the moral leadership. I don't think many countries are impressed anymore.

6:48 PM

Blogger denk said...

**By my reading, China is pretty much a one-trick pony in international affairs.

It offers economic partnership and cash.**


ziad,
ch does have a point there...

i made a similar observation in this guardian piece,
http://tinyurl.com/yckhle8

where the good professor ac grayling claimed that china is
**an imperialist, irredentist, massively human-rights-violating totalitarian state that will use any means to get its way** [sic]

this is my reply…

[such as .......?

torturing the locals who are unwilling to part with their possession and land..........no, i am not talking about gitmo either.
this fine western tradtion goes way back to centuries ago
http://tinyurl.com/26l5ur

bumping off leaders who refuse to submit to the washington concensus ?
http://tinyurl.com/lvkxby

killers who slit women and children's throat at night....after raping them ?
http://tinyurl.com/kob8mv

false flags ?
http://tinyurl.com/98kd4

blackops ?
http://tinyurl.com/3czfjq

sabotages ?
http://tinyurl.com/d8up42
[jim press, spare us your infantile ned/soros wisecracks, they have blood on their hand , lots of it, you do care about hr, i presume ?]

cultivating yet more “our kind of guys”
http://tinyurl.com/4fndqt

coups ?
http://tinyurl.com/2gn6g

covert wars ?
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6141

proxy wars ?
http://tinyurl.com/4tndam

outright invasions ?
http://tinyurl.com/fqpck

biowar…….now whats with this “advanced forms of biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes ” ?
http://tinyurl.com/5afu9g

phew, what’d they think of next !!
hell, u aint seen nuthin yet, i am writing a 5000 pages book on the subject right now]
but i am afraid the accursed chicoms would disappoint you big time, professor of philosophistry, no less.
see, those chicoms are one trick ponies, their modus operandii is always monies talk, they might be willing to grease some palms to get the job done…..just like everybody else.
but there’s all there is to it, sorry professor, the chinese are rather simple folks really, they dont even understand the concept of hr lol.
may be they should consider sending their cadres to the school of americas to immerse themselves in the democratic way of getting things done in a jiffy.
i heard the soa has changed its name to some fancy stuff ?]


as for the "moral" bit, i have a feeling ch is in tougue in cheek mode ?

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