Unfortunately, that area of the world has tremendous strategic, national-security, and economic significance to the US, as an enormous amount of ship traffic passes through there on its way to the Straits of Malacca off Singapore. If China controls that whole region, they’ll have the world economy by the neck (more than they already do).
“Unfortunately, that area of the world has tremendous strategic, national-security, and economic significance to the US,..”
We’ll have to find another way to Singapore, I guess!
OK, so I’m being flippant. But what part of we, the U.S.A. is bankrupt, do you not understand? It takes great wealth to project a global military presence. We no longer have that wealth.
And how much commercial shipping travels via U.S. merchantmen, anyway? Damn little, if I remember right.
It isn’t a matter of “if” China controls what is essentially it’s own front yard. They already do control that area. They’re the Big Dog in that part of the world. Australia should be worried, not us!
Americans are just having a difficult time realizing that we no longer are “The Big Dog”.
“Unfortunately, that area of the world has tremendous strategic, national-security, and economic significance to the US, as an enormous amount of ship traffic passes through there on its way to the Straits of Malacca off Singapore. If China controls that whole region, they’ll have the world economy by the neck (more than they already do).”
Thanks for some common sense on American interests.
The isolationist wing of the GOP is more dangerous than Obama’s Red Commie State Dept.