Balancing Forces In The Pacific -- Donald Kirk, Korea Times
BEIJING – The struggle for power and peace in Northeast Asia is an extraordinary balancing act in which those participating in the dance constantly risk tripping and falling over. One day we’re hearing that China is almost willing to fight over claims from the South China Sea to the Yellow Sea, and the next we learn that top U.S. and Chinese officials are grinning amiably while chatting about ``communications and cooperation.”
The love fest seems rather deceiving, however, considering that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been talking up plans to build up U.S. naval and airpower, promising half a dozen aircraft carriers will be cruising everywhere in defense of just about everyone. If all these countries were on such good terms, why all the military might?
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My Comment: The last thing that we need to see in the Far East is an arms race between Japan and China. It would raise tensions in the entire region .... and would all but guarantee a return to the old animosities that (supposedly) the Second World War ended. Unfortunately .... North Korea's nuclear ambitions coupled with China's massive defense buildup is not helping the situation.
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