Chinese Missiles at Maritime Choke Points
It is my contention that China's International Behavior Is being misread By Diplomats and Think Tanks here in the United States.
You see, it appears to me that China looks at trade and war a lot different than we do in the United States.
China has various levels of war which you might find on a line graph.
It might start out with negotiation, spying, trade disputes, economic sanctions, rejections of incoming goods, refusal to export certain goods, and incursions on another's territory, then confiscation of assets, military incursions, actual bullets being fired, and war.
Picture a line graph with those components on it, and you can begin to see how the Chinese think about such things.
Today, China is manipulating their currency and they are using trade to unbalance the flows of money so they get a better deal.
We will consider this as cheating, while they consider doing business as a war, not in the sense that we see war, but they see it as a contest or game.
In the Western world we see international trade as a win-win situation which brings people closer together and prevents war.
But if you are dealing with someone who considers trade to be a form of war, rather than a partnership, you can see the problem right away.
If someone thinks like this, then you can expect all of their future actions to be along this scale moving towards greater conflict rather than moving the other way or de-escalating conflict towards harmony.
That's a problem if the person you are trading with, who you believe to be your friend is doing such a thing - then it makes friendship rather challenging - like a really bad personal relationship or marriage.
Another problem is China believes that if someone is your friend then they will share knowledge with you, but in the Western world "proprietary information" and IP or intellectual property is secret and you don't share it in business with competitors.
Well, then in Chinese culture then you are not my friend.
So, the rhetoric of trade war condemnation seems ridiculous, it's a contest in that case.
But the word competitors, and the notion that you are competing, causes China to put the whole trade issue on the line shared with things that are either de-escalated or escalated forward towards military conflict.
This is why I believe that China is installing anti-ship missiles and various Maritime choke points throughout the Indian Ocean, Arabians Sea, Sea of Japan, North Sea, and the islands around Indonesia and Australia.
If you don't see this as a problem, you aren't thinking, and to project American values onto the red Chinese Army or Navy is extremely unwise, and nave thing to do.
The United States of America must protect our assets, interests, and allies.
And most of all it must protect the American people.
I don't believe we are doing that properly with regards to China, we are being sucked into a nonsensical game of political rhetoric, and I am quite certain that we are being gamed and taken advantage of on every single front.
To me it's obvious, but to the progressive-liberal-socialists, currently those running the leadership of our country, they seem to not understand.
Please consider all this.
References: 1.
) Time Magazine Article, "A Rivalry on the Roof of the World - In the Himalayas, India and China are needling each other.
Welcome to what may be the century's most important contest," by Jyoti Thottam, November 2, 2009.
2.
) Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Speed Priority - China's Navy lays out its requirements, and one is a super-cruising fighter," by Bradley Perrett, April 27, 2009.
3.
) Christopher I.
Pehrson; "String of Pearls: Meeting the Challenge of China's Rising Power across the Asian Littoral," published by U.
S.
Army War College, July 2006, ISBN 1-58487-250-0, War College # 20060801350.
4.
) Khalid R.
Al-Rodhan, "A Critique of China Threat Theory: A Systematic Analysis," paper published in Asean Perspective, Vol.
31, Number 3.
2007, pp.
41-66.
5.
) Foreign Affairs Magazine, "The Looming U.
S.
-Chinese Naval Rivalry," by Seth Cropsey, published on Septemper 27, 2010.
You see, it appears to me that China looks at trade and war a lot different than we do in the United States.
China has various levels of war which you might find on a line graph.
It might start out with negotiation, spying, trade disputes, economic sanctions, rejections of incoming goods, refusal to export certain goods, and incursions on another's territory, then confiscation of assets, military incursions, actual bullets being fired, and war.
Picture a line graph with those components on it, and you can begin to see how the Chinese think about such things.
Today, China is manipulating their currency and they are using trade to unbalance the flows of money so they get a better deal.
We will consider this as cheating, while they consider doing business as a war, not in the sense that we see war, but they see it as a contest or game.
In the Western world we see international trade as a win-win situation which brings people closer together and prevents war.
But if you are dealing with someone who considers trade to be a form of war, rather than a partnership, you can see the problem right away.
If someone thinks like this, then you can expect all of their future actions to be along this scale moving towards greater conflict rather than moving the other way or de-escalating conflict towards harmony.
That's a problem if the person you are trading with, who you believe to be your friend is doing such a thing - then it makes friendship rather challenging - like a really bad personal relationship or marriage.
Another problem is China believes that if someone is your friend then they will share knowledge with you, but in the Western world "proprietary information" and IP or intellectual property is secret and you don't share it in business with competitors.
Well, then in Chinese culture then you are not my friend.
So, the rhetoric of trade war condemnation seems ridiculous, it's a contest in that case.
But the word competitors, and the notion that you are competing, causes China to put the whole trade issue on the line shared with things that are either de-escalated or escalated forward towards military conflict.
This is why I believe that China is installing anti-ship missiles and various Maritime choke points throughout the Indian Ocean, Arabians Sea, Sea of Japan, North Sea, and the islands around Indonesia and Australia.
If you don't see this as a problem, you aren't thinking, and to project American values onto the red Chinese Army or Navy is extremely unwise, and nave thing to do.
The United States of America must protect our assets, interests, and allies.
And most of all it must protect the American people.
I don't believe we are doing that properly with regards to China, we are being sucked into a nonsensical game of political rhetoric, and I am quite certain that we are being gamed and taken advantage of on every single front.
To me it's obvious, but to the progressive-liberal-socialists, currently those running the leadership of our country, they seem to not understand.
Please consider all this.
References: 1.
) Time Magazine Article, "A Rivalry on the Roof of the World - In the Himalayas, India and China are needling each other.
Welcome to what may be the century's most important contest," by Jyoti Thottam, November 2, 2009.
2.
) Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Speed Priority - China's Navy lays out its requirements, and one is a super-cruising fighter," by Bradley Perrett, April 27, 2009.
3.
) Christopher I.
Pehrson; "String of Pearls: Meeting the Challenge of China's Rising Power across the Asian Littoral," published by U.
S.
Army War College, July 2006, ISBN 1-58487-250-0, War College # 20060801350.
4.
) Khalid R.
Al-Rodhan, "A Critique of China Threat Theory: A Systematic Analysis," paper published in Asean Perspective, Vol.
31, Number 3.
2007, pp.
41-66.
5.
) Foreign Affairs Magazine, "The Looming U.
S.
-Chinese Naval Rivalry," by Seth Cropsey, published on Septemper 27, 2010.
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