Kurt Campbell, a key architect of Barack Obama's US "pivot" to Asia, will take a top job for President-elect Joe Biden, signaling renewed efforts to rally with allies in the face of a rising China....
Trump "strained virtually every element of the region's operating system," Campbell wrote in an essay this week in Foreign Affairs co-authored with Rush Doshi, a China expert at the Brookings Institution.
The two wrote that the United States "needs to make a conscious effort to deter Chinese adventurism" but advocated a more nuanced approach than the Trump team, which has spoken of a global Cold War-like struggle against Beijing.
Asian nations do not want to have to choose between the United States and China, Campbell and Doshi wrote.
"A better solution would be for the United States and its partners to persuade China that there are benefits to a competitive but peaceful region," they wrote, saying Beijing should be offered a place in a regional order if it abides by agreed-upon rules.
On defense, they called for the United States to "start by moving away from its singular focus on primacy and the expensive and vulnerable platforms such as aircraft carriers" and instead pursue "asymmetric capabilities" such as long-range missiles and submarines. AFP
The above is a typical American narrative that China is aggressive and indulges in adventurism. They forgot to look into the mirror to see who is the world's number one trouble maker, fighting wars, inciting wars, conveniently brandling countries as threat to their security. The world's number one threat to peace and security is the USA, the evil Empire. Finally they admitted that their President is the biggest threat not only to the rest of the world, a very dangerous man, an unhinged or deranged thug, but also a threat to Americans. They have to clip his wing, put a stop to his authority to ignite a nuclear war.
American aggression and adventurism have been continuous, non stop since WW2, starting wars unilaterally, fabricated lies and fake information to start wars, and killing millions of people all over the world, and destroying many countries and their people. And the Americans got the cheek to accuse China of adventurism when China has not fought a war other than chasing the Americans out of North Korea and the Indians and Vietnamese back to their countries. 3 wars after WW2 were all that China fought, all defensive wars, to protect its own territories from foreign invaders.
What did the Americans do? Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghan War, Middle East invasions etc etc These are not aggression, not adventurism, peace loving, wars for peace. Stop the lies, stop the white lies. The rest of the world is not going to believe in your lies anymore or let or threaten by the evil Americans into fighting wars for the American Empire and sending their soldiers to die for the Americans. The Americans can continue to agitate and incite wars for all they like, but do it on your own and let the American boys and girls die for your own adventurism and aggression.
The rest of the world has enough of American lies and wars. No more wars, peace is what the world wants.