Wendy Wu
China and the South China Sea will be in sharp focus when the US military reviews its missions around the world, according to the Pentagon.
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin announced earlier this month that US President Joe Biden had instructed the Pentagon to conduct “a global force posture review of US military footprint, resources, strategy and missions”.
“We will consult our allies and partners as we conduct this review,” he said.
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Austin has said China is “the chief pacing challenge” to the United States and the Indo-Pacific area of critical importance to the US.
“And that’s going to be a key factor in this global posture review that [Austin is] going to do,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Friday. Yahoo News
Another article in Yahoo News is titled 'Can the US enlist the Philippines to help contain China in the Indo-Pacific?'
The world has been used to the presence of American bases and aircraft carriers all over as if it is a right, a normal. The Empire has been accepted as the norm, unchallenged, unquestioned. Upsetting this American dominance is unacceptable, even wrong to do so. American naval strike force sailing into the South China, calling themselves freedom of navigation when in reality is provocation, infringing into the rights of China and other littoral states of the South China, threatening these countries, did not ruffle any feathers. If China would to do so in the Caribbean of near some American held islands, it would cause an uproar. China is aggressive, the American military provocation is not, is for peace, to protect the weaker countries from China, a country that has not been in a war for 40 years and has not invaded any country. The other, the evil Empire has been in continuous warfare, invading countries and held in awe as a peaceful country. What is wrong with this world?
What mission are the Americans talking about? Dominance of the American Empire and control of the world or for peace? The second few lines of Wendy Wu's article is clear, to stop the challenge from a rising China. China is growing too strong for the Americans and challenging its unchallenged dominance as the Empire. The threat of China is not to the rest of the world but to the dominance of the American Empire?
Why be afraid of China becoming the next preeminent world power when it is peaceful, did not invade any country, did not conduct wars, while the evil American Empire has been warring every day of the year, threatening and oppressing weaker countries, calling them enemies, making them enemies and making their people suffered. China did not do any of these things. Who is the bully, who is the aggressive power, who is threatening the weaker country? China does not make any country its enemy. China would trade with any country willing to trade with her.
The threat of China is only to the American dominance. It has nothing to do, directly, with other peaceful countries. The world could be a better place with a peaceful and benign new power that did not believe in wars and invasion and threatening any country.
The question in the other article, 'Can the US enlist the Philippines to help contain China in the Indo-Pacific?' Why should the Philippines want to be a part of the American Empire, to fight China, to die for the American Empire? There are many Pinoys that think it is alright to be part of the American Empire. But why want to fight and die for the American Empire just to be ruled and bullied by the American Empire?
Why not let the two contenders fight and sit on the sideline to watch the show? Which other silly country is willing to fight for he American Empire when they could be free from the control of the Empire, to be treated equally, to be courted by both powers when they balance out each other's might?
With China and American in contention, the rest of the world can become freer. China is not forcing them to choose. Only the evil American Empire is forcing them to choose, because the evil American Empire cannot accept the rise of China and looking over their shoulder and supporting weaker nations suppressed and oppressed by the evil American Empire, not allowing it to do as it pleases to hurt other countries.
How many silly countries would still love to be controlled by an Empire and be coerced to do things against their national interests? And to fight and die to defend the American Empire?