China Voices It's Dissatisfaction Over U.S. Policy In Asia

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, April 9, 2014. Hagel met with Xi to discuss mutual state and defense issues. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

China Fires Shot Across U.S. Bow Ahead Of Obama's Asia Trip -- Reuters

(Reuters) - In one of the many frank exchanges U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had in China this week, General Fan Changlong told him how one of his uncles died as a slave in a Japanese mine during World War Two.

Fan, deputy head of China's powerful Central Military Commission, spoke about the lessons of history, signaling Beijing's concerns that the United States was siding with Japan against China.

Hagel replied by saying his own father had helped fight Japanese forces in World War Two.

"The secretary made it very clear that we should be informed by history but not driven by it," a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity to recount a conversation on Tuesday that he described as terse.

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Update #1: China's Military Chiefs Lecture the Visiting U.S. Defense Secretary -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Update #2: Washington should notice Beijing's frankness, resolve -- People's Daily (China)

My Comment: The Chinese used Hagel's trip to China to make their displeasure on U.S. foreign policy in the region known. Is the White House listening .... probably .... but the U.S. is more worried on what is happening in the rest of the world .... and placating Chinese concerns is not on the top of that list.