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Xiaofeng Wang, The Diplomat: What Do China’s Military Hawks Think of Trump?
Well-known hardliners react to the new U.S. security strategy and trade war.
Unlike President Obama, who gives first priority to terrorism, Iran, and North Korea, President Trump labeled conventional security challenges posed by Russia and China as prime threats, which signals a fundamental change in America’s threat judgment. It not only increases the possibility of confrontation and conflict between China and the U.S., but also explains the reason why Trump stages a trade war against China.
So said Luo Yuan, executive vice president and secretary general of the China Strategic Culture Promotion Association, in the press conference for the release of the annual report reviewing U.S. military power.
Retired Army Major General Luo Yuan is widely regarded as a key figure among Chinese “military hawks” for his hardline opinions against the United States and its allies like Japan. His frequent appearances on national television and his hundreds of thousands of followers on Sina Weibo (the Chinese parallel to Twitter) have given his strong influence both on traditional and online media. Previously, Luo’s hawkish opinions on China’s territory disputes with Japan had raised great concerns both domestically and internationally.
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WNU Editor: I concur with the above report that China's hawks do not see any reason to change any of their policies. After-all .... they have been massively increasing their defense budget for the past few years, and they have been engaged in protectionist trade and economic policies against the U.S. economy. If I sense anything it is regret that the U.S. has become aware of what China is doing.
China’s Silk Road project is clever but .dependent upon shrugging off huge amounts of bad debt in exchange for real estate. Who funds this seemingly endless supply of loans? USA trade surpluses favoring China. If Trump wins his trade war against China, the flow of dollars diminishes, then what? China has the mother of all banking crisis, currency crisis and economic crisis. There is no substitute to a fat US trade surplus for the Chinese. Lose it and they can’t replace it in Europe, South America, Africa, anywhere. A turning point in history has arrived. For the US the impact of fracked fuels very cheap to produce is giving Trump the confidence he can recreate a vast US based manufacturing economy to replace much of what was sent to China under the dogma that it was too expensive in an energy poor America to manufacturing goods.
ReplyDeleteDream on
ReplyDeleteThe same people who came up with the 10ft tall Soviet soldiers developed the silk road 2 threat. Let it be. We should give them Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteAfghanistan is not United State's property to give to anyone but the world might be a better place if they were to just pull a moon lighter and vacate.
ReplyDeleteMr President Trump said he would put Chinese food on menus in all him hotels in the world and that would be friendship for the two countries so thank you mr trump
ReplyDeleteWǒmen zhōngguó rén duì tè lǎng pǔ xiānshēng chōngmǎn jìngwèi hé jìngwèi, yīnwèi tā tài fēngkuángle, suǒyǐ wúlùn tā zěnme shuō wǒmen dōu bù zhīdào tā huì zuò shénme
ReplyDeleteChina's biggest Silk Road problem is that it runs though Pakistan.
ReplyDeleteA nation that is ripe for civil war.
The Baloch, Sindhi, Kashmiri and Pashtun ( in general order of hate ) have had enough of the Punjab running the "nation".
The Baloch in particular hate the Punjab.
It would be very cost effective for another nation to fund a civil war in Pakistan that would make the Silk Road somewhere between too costly to be viable, to completely useless.
~ Anon #87