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Re: McCain and the F-35
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Sunday, May 1 2016, 1:23:55 (UTC)
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Sometime around 2011, Hillary published a piece about the "Pivot to China". A few days later, Obama began talking about the "pivot" out of Western Asia (the Middle-East) to East Asia (China). As far back as 2006, John Mearsheimer (of the infamous 2000 or 2001 Walt/Mearsheimer article, then book: "The Israel Lobby") put out a piece, then a book followed by many talks, titled: "Can China Rise Peacefully?" Mearsheimer is a historian, political scientist and a hard-ass realist. He proposes that in the game of power politics, all power players: those with nuclear weapons, growing economy and an immense population, are in a state of anarchy (not hierarchy); and therefore, all are equal and unpredictable. John says that the two things to look out for are a growing economy and military capability. If, John pursues, China continues to grow and perhaps surpass the U.S. economically (which some say that's already happened), and most importantly, if China's military capability begins to grow... then it follows that like most, if not all, empires historically, China will begin to spread its wings, which will fan over our (our 1%)'s foreign interests. So... they must by degraded before it's too late.

Here's a few lines from the man himself:

"Offensive realism offers important insights into China’s rise. My argument in a nutshell is that if China continues to grow economically, it will attempt to dominate Asia the way the United States dominates the Western Hemisphere. The United States, however, will go to enormous lengths to prevent China from achieving regional hegemony. Most of Beijing’s neighbors, including India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Russia, and Vietnam, will join with the United States to contain Chinese power. The result will be an intense security competition with considerable potential for war. In short, China’s rise is unlikely to be tranquil.

"It is important to emphasize that my focus is not on how China will behave in the immediate future, but instead on how it will act in the longer term, when it will be far more powerful than it is today. The fact is that present-day China does not possess significant military power; its military forces are inferior to those of the United States. Beijing would be making a huge mistake to pick a fight with the U.S. military nowadays. Contemporary China, in other words, is constrained by the global balance of power, which is clearly stacked in America’s favor. Among other advantages, the United States has many consequential allies around the world, while China has virtually none. But we are not concerned with that situation here. Instead, the focus is on a future world in which the balance of power has shifted sharply against the United States, where China controls much more relative power than it does today, and where China is in roughly the same economic and military league as the United States. In essence, we are talking about a world in which China is much less constrained than it is today."

To read the rest (and I recommend), click here:
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/can-china-rise-peacefully-10204



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