Posted on 04/27/2022 4:26:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Chinese Communist Party wants us to believe that it has no hegemonic ambitions and that its BRI is just another multilateral advance for mankind.
Ever since China launched its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), some Western analysts have portrayed it as a geopolitical offensive designed to increase China’s influence in, and ultimately control of, Eurasia. These analysts often base their portrayal on the classic geopolitical writings of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Halford Mackinder, and Nicholas Spykman, all of whom envisioned global politics as a clash between great Eurasian land powers and insular and peninsular sea powers. Over a decade ago, Naval War College scholars Toshi Yoshihara and James Holmes wrote a book titled Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan in which they cite Chinese sources to support their claim that the PLA Navy looks to Mahan for geopolitical inspiration. Robert D. Kaplan, in a paper originally prepared for the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (“The Return of Marco Polo’s World”), argued that the BRI was part of China’s strategy to dominate Mackinder’s “World Island.” Claudia Astarita, a lecturer at Sciences Po Lyon and an associate fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute, has described the BRI as China’s attempt to extend its influence across Spykman’s Eurasian Rimland (Western Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia). Perhaps the best proof that China indeed views the world this way is their repeated denials that the BRI has anything to do with geopolitics and China’s quest for hegemony. Here is a case in point.
Teng Jianqun is a retired People’s Liberation Army (PLA) colonel who is the Director of the Department for American Studies and Center for Arms Control and International Security at China’s Institute of International Studies.
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It looks like China now believes it has the “mandate of heaven” to rule the entire world.
China learned that most politicians would be willing to sell out their nations in return for personal wealth.
That is what the Belt & Road Initiative is really all about.
Has anyone noticed what China is doing to its people? I think its a practice run but its torturous.
I’m just irked by this style of writing — Here’s the name of an author; here’s the name of his book. Here’s the name of another author; here’s the name of his book. Here’s the name of another author; here’s the name of his book.
No kidding.
Been watching this.
WE HAVE THE CONTROL, WE MUST USE IT! They can’t feed themselves, they have to import 80% of their hydrocarbons, they are running out of water and have a restive population. Almost 40% is being held under a lock down. If the US cuts purchases from China by 50% we cripple their economy!
No sh** Sherlock
To be fair, China has believed that from at least 300 BC until 1890
Now that they have Russia, China is good for food and hydrocarbons.
Exports to the US are about 20% of China’s exports. So cutting purchases 50% would be a 10% reduction in China’s export business.
Ping
They're doing it all over South America, too.
And they are in Africa. They are getting poor governments to sign up for infrastructure they can never pay for. All part of the CHICOM plan. Cause default and take over.
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