China's Neighbors React to Its Expanding Influence (Agenda)

Stratfor's VP of East and South Asia Analysis Rodger Baker reviews the risks in the Japan-China conflict and the role of the United States in the region.

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[akram]

Finally! The US foreign policy is now driven by cool headed thinking and not by their ego.

[investornator]

Australian Defence forces train with the PLA, to me that speaks volumes.We also train with Japan and USA.Also note, China is Australia's biggest trading partner.No one wants to damage a mutual financial relationship where both parties benefit.

[foxphoton]

:) That's nice. I stand behind my sister Commonwealth nation Australia and I stand behind China too!

[TonoFonseca]

I stand behind my sister Commonwealth nation, Australia. And I stand behind Japan too.

[CorporateRule]

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[ShinobiHOG]

i have a job, an apartment AND a brand spankin new AR-15. thanks for the motivation, buddy ;-)

[subhendu]

Is that the only possible way to be a rich country either by exporting lots of good i.e export based economy or having huge storage of natural resource ?

[ShinobiHOG]

Australia and Japan the American people will always have your back. China, don't get too big for your britches and get yourself hurt, your country isn't stable enough to absorb an American kick to the

[Zarrov]

You don't need "export economy" but you need to produce, yes. What you produce depends what you can do at given moment and the thing is that its better to base your economy on domestic demand. You become rich basically by not wasting your fruits of labor, and trough lots and lots of work. This demands that you have stable type of government and clear, efficent justice system with law nad protection of individual freedom and property.

[wabdinur]

Threatening your main creditor...that can't be good.

[DarkArtistKaiser]

I honestly wonder what the next era will bring.

I'm sure many believe that it will be a future dominated by science and reason, but considering the cycle humanity has created for itself, it will likely be another era of conflict, and the only tech that's really advancing is military tech.

[AmericanPatriot]

Really the US is taking an aggressive stance?? Is that why as I sit here in the Philippines, Chinese warships sit 200 miles from me protecting their fishing and research vessels operating well within the 70 mile exclusive economic zone outlined by UNCLOS? In the issue of the South China Sea, China has claimed exclusive rights to almost the entirety of this vital waterway through which flows one third of global trade. How is the US stance here aggressive?

[AmericanPatriot]

With the exception of Vietnam which is a new regional ally. Other US allies in the region have been allied since the end of WWII as Indonesia and Malaysia can not really be counted as US allies. The US has really allowed Japan to take the lead in building a regional alliance in an effort to not upset current trade with China.

The US has really been subdued in its response to Chinese regional provocations. Your analysis in the 2nd paragraph is spot on correct. Not a justification though.

[kimjack]

US imperialism? If China would stop co-opting everybody's land and culture, then maybe we wouldn't need the intervention of another superpower to maintain geopolitical balance? Chinese: There's no such thing as Mongolia, it's just another tribe of Chinese people. Tibet? No Tibet, only different tribe. Google Northeast Project to see why Korea's not pleased either. It's an actual govt. function to coopt other cultures as their own.

[investornator]

Australia has good relationships with China, Usa and Japan.Australia will be the mediator when these countries bicker against one another.War is no good for any economy.

[nfamoussoldier]

Let's have a nuclear war please, fuck humans

[billyboy]

Baker is much more objective than the old dude

[kimjack]

This isn't "ethics, " i'm not talking about what anyone "should" be doing or not. I just found your comment a bit ignorant since there's a reason why the US is there.. because Korea and Japan, despite the protests of some of their citizenry, desire an American presence there.

What do you think N. Korea is? It's a Chinese subsidized buffer zone... that's all there is. Concentration camps? N. Korea itself is a giant concentration camp with real ones the size of cities in it.

[ShinobiHOG]

hey, get a war going and win.... debt is forgiven....

[killax]

China is big but there is but a smal part of china that realt likes it the rest would want there own nation