Preserving U.S. National Security Interests Through a Liberal World Construct

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[DTAD]

The emergence of peer competitors, not terrorism, presents the greatest long-term threat to our national security. Over the past decade, while the United States concentrated its geopolitical focus on fighting two land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, China has quietly begun implementing a strategy to emerge as the dominant imperial power within Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean.

Within the next 2 decades, China will likely replace the United States as the Asia-Pacific regional hegemonic power, if not replace us as the global superpower.1 Although China presents its rise as peaceful and non-hegemonic, its construction of naval bases in neighboring countries and military expansion in the region contradict that argument.

[Makana]

“the United States should adopt a grand strategy of “investment,” building legitimacy and capacity in the very institutions that will protect our interests in a liberal global construct of the future when we are no longer the dominant imperial power. “

See the world as it is, not as we hope it to be. Look to Syria and the Sudan to see how this liberal approach to the realities of World Order power are working.

These notions are generated in the salons of Brussels and Washington by those who have never looked a deadly foe, armed with a dangerous weapon, in the the eye.

[bert]

In my mind the premiss is flawed. The thought that China can be contained is delusional.

China was contained for say 200 years and was kept in a backward state. The people of China in 2012 do not want to be backward, they want to prosper and have good lives.

The world must come to grips with the change resulting from China transitioning from a backward, then totalitarian state, into one that is more modern and vibrant.

The world east of Suez is ascendent and will begin to lead. The world west of Suez, that is Europe, is in decline. The key to understanding the future is to understand that fact