Re: Southeast Asia through Chinese eyes
America is the big dark demon behind the latest uproar in South East Asia. America's action to make war with other countries to feed its thirst for oil and to prevent others such as China or Russia from acquiring it, is the main motivation behind its foreign policy in many parts of the world.
China is a new up and coming world superpower economically and militarily. Obviously, America sees this as very intimidating and threatening. It hates competition. Just like any big country, China consumes large quantity of oil. China is the world's second biggest consumption of oil to power those factories and automobiles. In order to maintain its economic growth, China must look around for more fuel if it were to sustain this growth. Surprisingly enough, there are huge quantity of this stuffs sitting right in its frontyard in the South China Sea. China feels that the South China Sea is its territory since historical time. Due to centuries of turmoil, China lost control of it and now have the opportunity to reclaim it. This is part of the "One-China" policy. This is why China made such a huge claim extending far into the shore of 6 countries of Southeast Asia. This has infuriated those Southeast Asian nations that are effected by China's claims. What is there for them to do? How about calling America for assistance.
America also see an opportunity for oil and a chance to insert its influence in the region and at the same time containing China, killing 3 birds with one stone, as the saying goes. America has so far successfully armed Taiwan to the teeth to prevent China from influencing Southeast Asia. America has huge propaganda generating machine churning up anti-China rhetoric that spread all over the world.
God forbids, but the next big military conflicts between the 2 giants could be in Southeast Asia. They will undoubtedly drag other little nations into their conflict. Vietnam is spending $2 billion dollars purchasing submarines, while the Philippines is spending $100 million on warships and fighter planes. Even Thailand is jumping in the bandwagon, even though its coast is not affected by China's claims. Nevertheless, Thailand is America's and the West's playground, therefore feels the need to be pro-active in self-defense. Thailand will be spending $30 billion dollars in the next 10 years to buy used submarines from Germany and to upgrade its navy. This all has to do with China's expansionism.
Can America protect its Asian allies, considering the state of its economy and debt ceiling. Since war on terror started since 2001, America is in debt to the tune of $1.5 trillion, while China saw its growth rising exponentially. China is incrementally increasing its military spending with little or no transparency. This is a very great concern for America. China appears to do things "in your face" unexpectedly. As Mao Zedong once said, "There can never be one tiger in a mountain."
America is the big dark demon behind the latest uproar in South East Asia. America's action to make war with other countries to feed its thirst for oil and to prevent others such as China or Russia from acquiring it, is the main motivation behind its foreign policy in many parts of the world.
China is a new up and coming world superpower economically and militarily. Obviously, America sees this as very intimidating and threatening. It hates competition. Just like any big country, China consumes large quantity of oil. China is the world's second biggest consumption of oil to power those factories and automobiles. In order to maintain its economic growth, China must look around for more fuel if it were to sustain this growth. Surprisingly enough, there are huge quantity of this stuffs sitting right in its frontyard in the South China Sea. China feels that the South China Sea is its territory since historical time. Due to centuries of turmoil, China lost control of it and now have the opportunity to reclaim it. This is part of the "One-China" policy. This is why China made such a huge claim extending far into the shore of 6 countries of Southeast Asia. This has infuriated those Southeast Asian nations that are effected by China's claims. What is there for them to do? How about calling America for assistance.
America also see an opportunity for oil and a chance to insert its influence in the region and at the same time containing China, killing 3 birds with one stone, as the saying goes. America has so far successfully armed Taiwan to the teeth to prevent China from influencing Southeast Asia. America has huge propaganda generating machine churning up anti-China rhetoric that spread all over the world.
God forbids, but the next big military conflicts between the 2 giants could be in Southeast Asia. They will undoubtedly drag other little nations into their conflict. Vietnam is spending $2 billion dollars purchasing submarines, while the Philippines is spending $100 million on warships and fighter planes. Even Thailand is jumping in the bandwagon, even though its coast is not affected by China's claims. Nevertheless, Thailand is America's and the West's playground, therefore feels the need to be pro-active in self-defense. Thailand will be spending $30 billion dollars in the next 10 years to buy used submarines from Germany and to upgrade its navy. This all has to do with China's expansionism.
Can America protect its Asian allies, considering the state of its economy and debt ceiling. Since war on terror started since 2001, America is in debt to the tune of $1.5 trillion, while China saw its growth rising exponentially. China is incrementally increasing its military spending with little or no transparency. This is a very great concern for America. China appears to do things "in your face" unexpectedly. As Mao Zedong once said, "There can never be one tiger in a mountain."
8 comments:
Go to live in China your idiot if you like china so much!
If China can claim her territory in the South China Sea, Cambodia can also claim for the land that Thai and Vietnam stole from Cambodians.
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Everything before the UN was established should be buried.
I completely disagree with the stupid historical dream.
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America is evil government...instigator!
Do you ever wonder that the author of this article is a Chinese and maybe living in China or some Chinese student studying in America. He's hitting right on the head with some of the things he said. Who is truly the dark demon, China or America? I would say that is depending on what side of the turf you're standing on.
Well, America gave most favored nation status to Cambodia, meaning any Cambodian exports to America is taxed at a very low rate or no tax at all. This status has attracted a lot of investors to Cambodia, especially in the textile industry where about over $3 billion of garment products were exported to America. The MFN status has kick-started the Cambodian economy in the 1990s. America offered refuge to over 300,000 Khmer refugees who sent millions of dollars to their relatives in Cambodia every year which helped the Cambodian economy tremendously.
On the other hand, China created the Khmer Rouge and aided and abetted the Khmer rouge to kill over 2 millions Khmers. Cambodia still owed China over $2 billion of debts from the Khmer Rouge period, but no one makes a big noise about that. However, When America asked Cambodia to repay about $300-$400 million debts, Hun Sen and his supporters, including some who live in America, make a big deal about it. America bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trial to stop the Viet Cong and Communist from taking over South Vietnam and Cambodia and people make a big deal about it, but they forgot about the 2 million Khmers killed by the Khmer Rouge, helped by China.
China's aid amounted to not much, but it makes big headlines because of the close relationship Hun Sen has with China's leadership. Last time, China donated 257 military trucks and 50,000 military uniforms, which amounted to only $16 million, but Hun Sen and his supporters made a big deal about it. China's investments, like the construction of hydro-electric dams, rubber plantations, deforestation (logging), mining and construction of Boeung Kak Lake have caused great and irreparable environmental destruction to Cambodia and misery to many Khmer slum-dwellers. Road and bridge constructions carried out by Chinese companies were on loans, not for free, and the young Khmer generations will have to work their butts off to repay these Chinese debts in the future. On the contrary, the Western powers, Japan, France, America, Britain and others, contributed about $1 billion every year to Cambodia's reconstruction, but Hun Sen and his cohorts still attack them for imposing some restrictions for good governance of the aid money. America offered many Cambodians scholarships, China did too, but Hun Sen should be thankful that 2 of his children studied at American universities for free which cost American taxpayers nearly half a million dollars.
China's trades with Cambodia is like a one-way trade, where Cambodia imported a lot of Chinese products but exported very little to China. But America bought over $3 billion of Cambodian garment products from Cambodia, yet exported very little to Cambodia.
So, looking at the comparison above, is America or China that is the big dark demon?
1:16PM, can you asked America to forgive that $400 millions Lon Nol owed? Currently, who invest most in Cambodia, China or America? How much goods does Cambodia export to America compare to Vietnam and Thailand? What was America's stance during those clashes between Cambodia and Thailand over Preah Vihear?
America is helping Cambodia with Coco Cola, cheeseburger, and freedom fries. We're all be fat, lazy, and whining like little girls in a few decades. I love America.
7:12 PM, if you read carefully you will know that I said Cambodia exported over $3 billion in garments to America due to the Most Favored Nation status provided by America, but import very little from America. On the other hand, Cambodia exported around $50 million to China, but imported about $200-$400 million of Chinese products. About Chinese investments? As I said, most are at the expense of Cambodia as most Chinese investments are in logging, rubber plantations, dam-building, mining. These are destroying Cambodia than helping Cambodia. In another 50 years, all Cambodian forests will be gone, our rivers will be permanently damaged and our mines will be exhausted, but Cambodia benefit very little. About road and bridge constructions, they are all on loans which need to repaid by yours and my children and grandchildren, and only very little are donated. Hun Sen is so upset that America asked Cambodia to repay about $400 million in debts, but Hun Sen never said anything about $2 billion in debts to China which China asked to be repaid in full.
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