Chinese President Xi Jinping reviews troops from a car during a military parade in Hong Kong on June 30, 2017. China's status in the world has changed under Xi and he's only just getting started. Photo: AFP/Anthony Wallace
Pepe Escobar, Asia Times: Chinese scholar offers insight into Beijing’s strategic mindset
Essay by security expert Professor Zhang Wenmu gives a glimpse of China's geostrategic outlook, from the 'Western Pacific Chinese Sea' to the far side of the moon.
The top story of 2019 – and the years ahead – will continue to revolve around the myriad, dangerous permutations of the economic ascent of China, the resurgence of nuclear superpower Russia and the decline of the US’s global hegemony.
Two years ago, before the onset of the Trump administration, I sketched how the shadow play might proceed in the New Great Game in Eurasia.
Now the new game hits high gear; it’s the US against the Russia-China strategic partnership.
Diplomatic capers, tactical retreats, psychological, economic, cyber and even outer space duels, all enveloped in media hysteria, will continue to rule the news cycle. Be prepared for all shades of carping about authoritarian China, and its “malign” association with an “illiberal” Russian bogeyman bent on blasting the borders of Europe and “disrupting” the Middle East.
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WNU Editor: This is one of the better articles that I have read on China's strategic thinking to global affairs.
1 comment:
Interesting, but; "The implication is that the UK and US must “consume a great deal of resources to cross the oceans and develop a chain of islands.”"
Hogwash! This logic is unsophisticated as technology has reduced the resources required. Tech is a large factor in geopolitics and will continue to change basic laws.
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