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Originally Posted by antelope
When you read Chinese articles you see that the Chinese fear a U.S. encirclement and American hegemony.
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I happen to read Chinese articles in Chinese and while they're concern, fear is not a word I use. The Chinese are boxed in, not by any military coalition but by their isolation, lack of friends, and their own obsolence military.
At the same time, the Chinese believe themselves (self-deludingly) to be the master of the political strategem which they believe that they can outfox anybody in the region.
Your quote of their military capability and willingness is an example of that belief. However, none of it stands up to close scrutiny.
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When you read things that Rumsfeld is famous for quoting you see a defense policy that basically does encircle China and presumes them a threat.
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It's already done by the very nature of China's location and lack of good neighbours.
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Personally I think both countries through paranoia are creating a self-fullfilling prophecy. China builds up as it fears encirclement and American hegemony while America seeks to encircle China as it fears Chinese power growth.
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Those of us who lived with the Cold War cannot understand this Chinese worm pretending to be the dragon everyone is now boasting.