{"id":9838,"date":"2011-11-16T21:34:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T06:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9838"},"modified":"2011-11-16T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T06:58:00","slug":"u-s-pivot-to-asia-makes-china-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9838","title":{"rendered":"U.S. pivot to Asia makes China nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Washington Post<\/a>published an informative article on China’s reaction to President Obama’s “pivot” toward Asia:<\/p>\n

With the Obama administration\u2019s high-profile pivot toward Asia this week \u2014 pushing for a new free-trade agreement with at least eight other countries and securing military basing rights in Australia \u2014 China is feeling at once isolated, criticized, encircled and increasingly like a taret of U.S. moves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), which was the major policy issue at the APEC summit in Honolulu, will raise tensions between China and the U.S. and spill over from the realm of economics into the realm of security concerns:<\/p>\n

Among the friction points between the United States and China, a particular source of tension is the U.S. push for a new free-trade pact, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, which pointedly does not include China. Beijing sees the development of the TPP as a political move, to create a U.S.-dominated counterweight to a rival trade bloc of Southeast Asian countries plus China, Japan and South Korea, known by the acronym ASEAN Plus Three.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPresident Obama wants to intensely push on all fronts,\u201d said Zhu Feng, a professor at Peking University\u2019s School of International Studies. \u201cIt\u2019s very, very depressing. Of course, it\u2019s targeting China. It\u2019s a new East Asian strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zhu said he feared that the Chinese government would react to feeling isolated \u2014 particularly if the United States pursues the TPP free-trade agreement with Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and, perhaps, Japan, without China being invited to join. And the one area where Beijing could react is the economic arena, where the United States and China had lately been acting more cooperatively, even as they continued to disagree on the issue of currency valuation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat worries me for the moment is, economically China\u2019s backlash could be very serious,\u201d Zhu said. \u201cEconomics has turned out to be common ground for both sides. Now I have to say security elements will complicate China\u2019s view of economic engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

But, analysts here said, China expects to be taken seriously as a player in the East Asian region. And the analysts feared that any U.S. moves seen as provocative might only push a nervous China to take defensive measures.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the U.S. tries to be provocative .\u2009.\u2009. and treat China as a rival, it will definitely trigger an arms race and put East Asia in a tight spot,\u201d said Sun Zhe, an international relations professor at Tsinghua University. \u201cThis is what alarms me most.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Postpublished an informative article on China’s reaction to President Obama’s “pivot” toward Asia: With the Obama administration\u2019s high-profile pivot toward Asia this week \u2014 pushing for a new free-trade agreement with at least eight other countries and securing military basing rights in Australia \u2014 China is feeling at once isolated, criticized, encircled and … <\/p>\n

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