Plantagenet wrote:O admin tells US airlines to obey Chinese rules in Chinas new ADZ.
US tells airlines they must obey China in new zoneWOW! We're halfway to giving in to China already, and less than a week has gone by. This has got to be some kind of speed record for a craven capitulation.
Well that's reasonable. We ought to be sending the USAF and navy through that zone, but you don't want to take chances with passenger jets.
What's the real geopolitical situation on this???
From my little reading I do, seems like the US is focused on China as the growing future threat, even pulling out of elsewhere to focus on the pacific. But to what end? Shouldn't the darn Europeans be helping us, where are they? And the Australians, they're already snug in bed with China anyway.
The Japanese and Chinese have long time generational animosity, Japan's never going to go to the Chinese as Australia has. But what are we, the US, even opposing here with China?
Is it general containment? To reign in a new superpower before it can get too big?
Ok, so let's say the Chinese get sway over Japan and Korea and Taiwan and Singpore and all of them, why do we care, and how far is it worth going toe to toe with them? Other than CONTAINING CHINA and its potential threat if it gets too big, then I don't see any reason to bother with it. That and Japan and South Korea and others having been such reliable good allies for so long. Japan's the kind of place that the US could count on to buy a bunch of tbills if we ever got in a lurch. A solid ally, not one of these "frenemies." But with no monumental ideological struggle like communism vs. capitalism going on now, then what exactly is the point and how far to we go.
I can see that containment is necessary, the US is definitely screwed and all our dollars become worthless and we'll get much poorer and a real banana republic mess if China ever gets superpower status, has sway over Japan and the Pacific, then decides to lead the world into "de-Americanizing."
Like Russia, China has a totalitarian bent and they don't share our values. So the world would be led by tyranny, we go and win the cold war after half a century just to wind up with that state of affairs.
And then I wonder, are we any different anyway, we're already becoming more like the Chinese and Russians ourselves -- i.e. all the nsa spying and loss of civil liberties, how can we spy on the whole world's phone calls and have any moral credibility opposing Chinese or Russian authoritarianism? If we become no different than they are, then we've already lost the war before it ever starts.
