Something like 60% of China’s trade goes through the Malacca Straights and Singapore is hostile to China these days. This is an effort by the Chinese to project power forward to cover their strategic choke point. If Canada were hostile to us we’d be doing something similar in or around the Saint Lawrence. This project won’t matter after China manages to field an effective aircraft carrier. That is, assuming they can actually do so - something the USSR never managed to pull off.
Something like 60% of China’s trade goes through the Malacca Straights and Singapore is hostile to China these days. This is an effort by the Chinese to project power forward to cover their strategic choke point. If Canada were hostile to us we’d be doing something similar in or around the Saint Lawrence. This project won’t matter after China manages to field an effective aircraft carrier. That is, assuming they can actually do so - something the USSR never managed to pull off.
Chinese expansion into south Asian sea lines of communication and commerce is of greatest strategic interest to the United States and global economic well-being. Chinese growth is perhaps our #1 long-term, strategic, foreign policy and national security interest. The United States desires a relatively weak, benign Russia and relatively week, benign China.
The limp-wristed pansy Obama won't necessarily be a limp-wristed pansy on this issue, as Pacific rim politics and China-as-potential-superpower consideration don't touch significantly on Obama's Progressive Left ideological world view. In other words, Obama may approach Chinese expansionism rationally, and not as a liberal moonbat.
At the same time, we need a grown up adult at the helm when poking our finger at the Bear or Dragon. I hope that their are enough grown men left in the Pentagon so that Obama can receive sound military advice. I have my doubts. And who knows what the moonbat liberal mind can conceive when it has carrier battle groups to work with.
Something like 60% of China’s trade goes through the Malacca Straights and Singapore is hostile to China these days. This is an effort by the Chinese to project power forward to cover their strategic choke point. If Canada were hostile to us we’d be doing something similar in or around the Saint Lawrence. This project won’t matter after China manages to field an effective aircraft carrier. That is, assuming they can actually do so - something the USSR never managed to pull off.
Chinese expansion into south Asian sea lines of communication and commerce is of greatest strategic interest to the United States and global economic well-being. Chinese growth is perhaps our #1 long-term, strategic, foreign policy and national security interest. The United States desires a relatively weak, benign Russia and relatively week, benign China.
The limp-wristed pansy Obama won't necessarily be a limp-wristed pansy on this issue, as Pacific rim politics and China-as-potential-superpower consideration don't touch significantly on Obama's Progressive Left ideological world view. In other words, Obama may approach Chinese expansionism rationally, and not as a liberal moonbat.
At the same time, we need a grown up adult at the helm when poking our finger at the Bear or Dragon. I hope that their are enough grown men left in the Pentagon so that Obama can receive sound military advice. I have my doubts. And who knows what the moonbat liberal mind can conceive when it has carrier battle groups to work with.