US not encircling China - White House

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US not encircling China - White House
Washington, Oct 28

With US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criss-crossing Asian countries – in particular those in Chinese neighbourhood – over the next two weeks, the White House has said that it wants to engage Beijing and has no intention to encircle it.

"However, that even as we cooperate on some issues, we're going to disagree, and that we’re going to disagree directly with one another, but that those disagreements need not and should not derail cooperation on other issues. So that you can have a relationship that is mature enough and healthy enough that we can cooperate on some things, disagree on others," he said.

But it's similarly in the interests of the region for us to, again, be very engaged with ASEAN, to be deepening our partnership with India, and to firm up our alliances with Korea and Japan," Rhodes said in response to a question.

"If we look at our record over the last few years, one of the things we’re most proud of is putting those alliances with Korea and Japan on a firmer footing, again, getting at the table in terms of ASEAN, and then dealing with the partnership in India that has such enormous potential," he said.

"And frankly, it is a relationship that, because it’s between two democracies, has a kind of qualitative potential that is unique. The US and India, as the world’s two largest democracies, share interests but we also share values. And that opens the doors to cooperation bilaterally but also cooperation in the region and around the world."

 

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China: US Accused of Strategically Encircling China

An article captioned “ US Plot Against China”, written by Air Force Colonel Dai Xu, an influential Chinese Strategist, carried by the Chinese language edition of the official Xinhua News Agency on 27 May 2010, has come down heavily on the US for its ‘ crescent-shaped strategic encirclement’ of China.

Dai Xu has alleged in his article that the US is engaged in carrying out its ‘crescent-shaped strategic encirclement’ of China. Before the cold war, the US objective was to ‘contain China hard’, for the purpose of ‘strangulating the Soviet Union softly’. After the cold war, its strategy was reversed – containing Russia hard for the purpose of ‘strangulating China softly’.

Touching on what he calls the ‘US Dollar Trap’, Dai Xu takes what Professor Zhang Wuchang, of the Beijing University of Finance said several years back as basis, to disclose that in China, the US controls 21industries out of a total of 28, after ‘hollowing out’ China economically, at a time when the country’s focus for years remained on achieving GDP growth through trade.

The US reinvested in China the money it got from China, eradicated Chinese brands and dominated China’s mineral resources, shares of the Bank of China and China’s stock market. Dai Xu has added that at the same time, the US does not allow China to buy American companies and denies China any of its hitech weapons. All that US wants is that China invests heavily in US treasury bonds, leaving it with no money to buy technology, build modern industry, develop armament potentials and build defence capabilities.

The American humour is that the US should sell ‘toxic debt’ to China in return for the Chinese sale of ‘toxic toys’ to them.

The growing interests of the US in Myanmar serve the purpose of controlling China while Myanmar itself may develop no trust on China and opt for support of India and ASEAN to balance China.

In the case of Pakistan, that nation has already come under the US control due to Afghan war.

In the Indian Ocean, there is US-India collusion against China.

In conclusion, Dai Xu has asserted that the US is carrying out ‘soft attack’ on China and its grand strategy is to encircle China.

Assessing that the US ‘Diplomatic Clamp’ strategy aims to totally isolate China, the Chinese expert has acknowledged that Southeast Asia is more and more becoming politically dependent on the US. In Northeast Asia, Vietnam is becoming pro-US.