Beijing to press for wide-ranging ties with NATO members
WASHINGTON – China is considering a change in its historical policy of avoiding alliances and is looking to establish military and strategic ties with other countries in an effort to counter U.S. military influence worldwide, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Chinese strategists suggested the move in a conference sponsored by China’s National Security Policy Commission, which is led by senior military officers who are virulently anti-American.
Already, recent Chinese strategic decisions have indicated a new policy already is under way.
“History of the world tells us that, whether it’s in political, economic or military arenas, Western nations, without any exception, always resorted to alliances,” said one Chinese security analyst.
“China must change its non-alliance policy,” he said. “We must consider forming alliances. Otherwise, in a future war with the U.S., we will not be able to politically or militarily counter America’s global alliance network just by ourselves.
“Without an alliance system of our own,” he said, “we will never be able to win.”
Yang Mingje of the Chinese Institute of Contemporary International Relations, China’s largest strategic think-tank run by the Ministry of State Security, said the view among Chinese strategists is that while the U.S. is looking to put more of its military forces in the Pacific, the U.S. continues to have a global agenda, since “China has become a global power.”
To fight a globalized China, he said, the U.S. also must act globally as it did during the Cold War.
Any alliance with neighbors may be questionable, since Beijing has upset many of them with claims of historical rights to disputed islands and in regions where there are disagreements over offshore drilling access.
AUSTRALIA cannot juggle its relationships with the United States and China indefinitely and must choose a ''godfather'' to protect it, according to a prominent Chinese defence strategist.
The warning by Song Xiaojun, a former senior officer of the People's Liberation Army, comes after Foreign Minister Bob Carr was told by his Chinese counterpart that Australia's close military alliance with the US was a throwback to the Cold War era.
Senator Carr yesterday met the man expected to become China's next premier, Li Keqiang, in Beijing. Discussions centred on more comfortable matters including furthering trade and investment and the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations.
But Australia's strategic position in the Asia-Pacific region remains contentious. "Australia has to find a godfather sooner or later," Mr Song told The Age.
"Australia always has to depend on somebody else, whether it is to be the 'son' of the US or 'son' of China," he said. "[It] depends on who is more powerful, and based on the strategic environment."
Mr Song said Australia depended on exporting iron ore to China "to feed itself", but had not done enough to engage. "Frankly, it has not done well politically," he said.
With sensitivity in the Asia-Pacific over Australia allowing the US a permanent troop presence in Darwin, Senator Carr has been keen to emphasise its strong record of military co-operation with China.
Speaking on Monday, he said Australia was one of just two countries with a strategic defence dialogue with China at the chief-of-defence level.
He said Australia was last year the first Western nation to co-operate with China on a joint humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise and in 2010 the first to hold a joint live-fire exercise with China's navy.
The HMAS Ballarat will moor in Shanghai tomorrow to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations.
Both Mr Li and Senator Carr were keen to highlight the positives. The senator told Mr Li the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations was "an opportunity to renew and refresh and recommit to the relationship".
Mr Li said: "Forty years ago the two countries decided to establish diplomatic relations. This was a decision made with strategic perspective and laid the foundation for the furtherance of this bilateral relationship."
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As this Administration continues eroding our military and economy while retreating out of the Middle East, Europe and Asia.
Russia and China are getting ready to quickly fill the vacuum as economic and military leaders within those regions.
As our influence begins to fade from those regions and they become embolden enough to begin making demands to our allies within the region says a lot about them.
When America becomes weak enough for China and Russia to begin making demands and backs it up with their military in an effort to provoke us and or draw us out into a conflict.
That's when I believe we'll be at the greatest risk of a coordinated multi-national attack.
China's defence spending, the second highest after the U.S., is set to rise 11 per cent in 2012 to $106 billion, according to recent reports.(Reuters)
This summer, the largest international naval exercise in the world will see Canada's navy take on the second-largest role and Canadian officers share key commands — a remarkable prominence that Ottawa seems uncharacteristically reluctant to boast about.
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But in the world of military alliances, actions always speak far louder than words.
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I think Ryan is right... Australia won't ally with China, but at the same time look at what the UK has done in the last couple of years and how "socialist" the government has become. Now look at the US and what we've done in the military front.
Cuts, cuts and more cuts.
Pretty soon, it won't matter much.
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When America becomes weak enough for China and Russia to begin making demands and backs it up with their military in an effort to provoke us and or draw us out into a conflict.
Who is our own Neville Chamberlain (Attempted to maintain "peace for our time" through appeasement of Germany, settling the Munich Agreement; widely criticized following the German Invasion of Poland and consequent outbreak of World War II; resigned after failing to form a Coalition Government.)
Oh, wait... that might be Obama, since he's already attempting this with the Muslim Brotherhood....
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