Posted on 09/03/2024 1:18:20 PM PDT by Retain Mike
Over the past 10 to 15 years, the South China Sea (SCS) has emerged as an arena of strategic competition between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC, or China). China’s actions in the SCS—including extensive island-building and base-construction activities at sites that it occupies in the Spratly Islands, as well as actions by its maritime forces to assert China’s claims against competing claims by regional neighbors such as the Philippines and Vietnam—have heightened concerns among U.S. observers that China is gaining effective control of the SCS, an area of strategic, political, and economic importance to the United States and its allies and partners. Actions by China’s maritime forces at the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea (ECS) are another concern for U.S. observers. PRC domination of China’s near-seas region—meaning the SCS and ECS, along with the Yellow Sea—could substantially affect U.S. strategic, political, and economic interests in the Indo-Pacific region and elsewhere.
Potential broader U.S. goals for U.S.-China strategic competition in the SCS and ECS include but are not necessarily limited to the following: fulfilling U.S. security commitments in the Western Pacific, including treaty commitments to Japan and the Philippines; maintaining and enhancing the U.S.-led security architecture in the Western Pacific, including U.S. security relationships with treaty allies and partner states; maintaining a regional balance of power favorable to the United States and its allies and partners; defending the principle of peaceful resolution of disputes and resisting the emergence of an alternative “might-makes-right” approach to international affairs; defending the principle of freedom of the seas, also sometimes called freedom of navigation; preventing China from becoming a regional hegemon in East Asia; and pursuing these goals as part of a larger U.S. strategy for competing strategically and managing relations with China.
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Strategic competition is a stupid term.
“ No. I did not go through all 123 pages, but I did go to the table of contents, and then to a few selected items. ”
Thanks for posting it.
Just based on the part you posted here, it looks like we are losing ground on most of those “security objectives.”
What interests? Spending tens of billions we don't have to defend other nations while leaving ours undefended? Keeping trading routes "safe" to import trillions more in cheap goods while our factories remain idle? I never voted for these "interests," yet both parties wholeheartedly support them. F-k that. China wants to dominate the South China Sea. Let 'em. How about we go back to dominating things in our Hemisphere, crushing tyrants, sealing the borders, deporting illegals, and keeping China out of South and Central America? And putting up walls of tariffs so we can start building things again.
You are totally clueless. This country has strategic interests in maintaining open trade routes. What we waste are money on is domestic spending for this wasteful and useless social programs.
This country has strategic interests in maintaining open trade routes. What we waste are money on is domestic spending for this wasteful and useless social programs.
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Exactly!
We’re witnessing the steady, slow-motion collapse of our country.
Or decent into civil war. There are those who will not let this country go without a fight.
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