China Dreams the Glory Again!

In Power and Choice: Asian Security Futures we identified two sets of choices by regional political and military leaders as particularly important in determining how shifting power balances will shape Asia’s future security order. The sinking of the Cheonan and subsequent events highlight the impact both of immediate crisis responses and of long-term strategic choices that aim to secure a country’s place in the order that will emerge fromthe region’s present flux in great power relations.
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The strategic choices made by South Korea, the United States, Japan and other powers following the Cheonan sinking will have lasting repercussions for Asia’s emerging security order. They will reinforce the emerging balancing dynamics we identified in Power and Choice.

America’s alliances with South Korea and Japan have been strengthened, as has the strategic consensus among these three powers. This convergence has highlighted the importance of political values in informing the strategic choices states make – particularly when contrasted with China’s obstructive response. The fact that North Korea’s attack and China’s defensive response may be tied to succession plans in both authoritarian states further underlines this point. ...

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China was one of the great civilizations, they are dreaming again that glory, they command your respect their cultural heritage. Lots of Westerns are fancy of doing business in Chinese without basics. Some are success some are not. They are doing business with only friends.  Chinese has done always better bargains even if with friends.  They never let their friends make money unless they make them first.  Chinese ask you what you can offer.  They are ruthless, intuitive and have great survival instincts and can be dark dark.  They judge you at first glance whether you are a friend or enemy.  One thing for sure they never take for grant how successful they are, as they have been learned painful lesson from not so-long-ago-horrid history. e.g. Great Leap forward and Culture Revolution etc...  40 million people died. They enjoy their economic and military power as they earned as they think they deserve them. Whatever others are saying, they have every intention of keeping them that will be many centuries.  I believed that Korean peninsular security is good for China as well, and then what is it? What make Chinese is not willing web into USA-ROK-Japan?    This era is not Ping Pong Diplomacy, as China doesn’t need much West as they used to be… they need something else.  I remember I had a dream; a black caterpillar was clawing down a room wall and turn into a huge black Chinese character....

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