US escalates military rhetoric against China

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US escalates military rhetoric against China
According to estimates by various foreign observers, a rather obvious aggravation of relations between the PRC and the USA has recently been taking place, despite the readiness declared by Washington to develop bilateral cooperation in a number of areas. This situation, according to analysts, is largely due to the adjustment of the US military strategy and the special emphasis placed by the Americans on strengthening the strategic presence in the Pacific region, as a method of confrontation with the expansion of the PRC in Asia. This confrontation is most acute in the military-strategic area and rivalry in influencing regional trade and economic associations.


The most striking evidence of the growth of anti-Chinese sentiment in the American political establishment was the 30 of October of this year. meeting of the subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and emerging threats from the international committee of the US House of Representatives. According to his results, this meeting was marked by a significant increase in incitement to Washington’s military confrontation with China in the Asia-Pacific region.

The theme of the subcommittee’s meeting chaired by right Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher was: “China’s Maritime and Other Geographical Threats.” The explicit purpose of these “hearings” was to search for American politicians to further strengthen US expansion into the Asia-Pacific region through military confrontation. with China based in this activity on Japan.

In contrast to the official rhetoric of the White House "on the development of cooperation with the PRC," Dana Rohrabacher, opening the meeting of the subcommittee, said: "We are in a cold war with China." He attributed China to a clear international threat in its desire to dominate the Asia-Pacific region, questioning the legitimacy of China’s territorial claims in the East China and South China seas. He regarded these claims as “unfounded”, “doubtful” and “expansive”. Rohrabacher criticized the Obama administration for not officially supporting the territorial demands of the Philippines in the South China Sea. In his opinion, Washington’s neutral position in territorial disputes with China in the South China and East China Seas is to the detriment of its American allies.

Obviously sticking a confrontational stance in relations with China, Rohrabacher accused Beijing of “sending tens of thousands of students to the United States to collect secret information and, above all, in the field of armaments, in order to use this information for the interests of the Chinese army.” According to Rohrabacher, Chinese hackers penetrating US government and research centers also pose a serious danger to the United States.

Rohrabacher’s rhetoric was reinforced by committee member Alan Lowenthal, who noted that “of stories it is necessary to draw appropriate lessons and, if no conclusions are drawn, the new Pearl Harbor could take the United States by surprise, and the future will be like the events of 11 of September of 2001. ” Therefore, according to him, "it is necessary to treat China with more alarm."

Warlike appeals were picked up by the oldest member of the US House of Representatives, Congressman William R. Kiting (William Keating), who criticized the policy of reducing the US military budget, which, in his opinion, instills in the ranks of the American allies uncertainty about the ability of Washington to protect their interests.

Of course, the timing of the hearings on this issue in the subcommittee of the US House of Representatives draws particular attention. After Washington’s refusal by the international community to carry out a military strike against Syria, Obama’s demonstrative non-participation in recent Asian summits and scandalous revelations of the espionage activities of US embassies and consulates around the world in the interests of the National Security Agency, the US foreign policy is in a clear crisis. Under these conditions, the American political establishment clutches at the “Obversion towards Asia” proclaimed by the Obama administration to take revenge on the international front and, jointly with its allies, militarily block China in the Asia-Pacific region. This circumstance caused the calls for the creation of an Asian military coalition proclaimed at a meeting of the subcommittee, with the United States playing a leading role in them and with the main support in this activity for Japan.

Given such appeals by American politicians and the policy pursued by the Abe government to increase the military budget of Japan, along with the loosening of constitutional restrictions on the use of national armed forces, we can hardly expect a weakening of Tokyo’s militant position in the territorial dispute with China in the near future. Perhaps, as well as the constructive role of the United States in easing international tension and regional conflicts.
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  1. HAM
    +19
    11 November 2013 08: 32
    Poor, poor America, around the enemy, and strive to offend the weak, defenseless, furry, affectionate country of a victorious democracy. HI .. HI ..
    1. -1
      11 November 2013 16: 00
      Quote: HAM
      Poor, poor America



      The world is a single organism: if America eats something, then the whole world will be offended.
    2. +11
      11 November 2013 16: 01
      Yes, there is nothing personal! China is simply the largest lender to the United States. A good way to write off debts ...
      1. Sergh
        +2
        11 November 2013 16: 42
        Ship with illegal weapons and ammunition on board from Ukraine detained in Greece

        The Greek coast guard on Friday announced the detention of a cargo ship near the island of Symi in the Aegean Sea, on board of which it found weapons and ammunition.

        A suspicious vessel was spotted southeast of Symi and stopped by the coast guard. The inspection team found weapons and ammunition on the ship. Accompanied by ships and patrol boats, the ship was delivered to the port of Rhodes and placed under protection, RIA Novosti reports.
        “The available data do not yet make it possible to determine the exact destination of the ammunition and weapons that were on the ship,” the report said. According to the Coast Guard, the documents did not match the cargo on board.

        The coast guard has not yet officially announced the name of the vessel and what weapons it carried. According to media reports, we are talking about the cargo ship Nour M under the flag of Sierra Leone, which left one of the ports of Ukraine and headed to Turkish Iskenderun with 20 thousand Kalashnikovs.

        The media also reported that a total of 59 containers were on board, 56 of which contained weapons and ammunition.

        According to the media, information about the port of destination is contradictory. The Syrian port of Tartus is declared in the Marine Traffic system, another electronic system indicated the destination of the Tripoli vessel in Libya, and the captain first stated that the vessel was heading to Iskenderun, Turkey. The port of Iskenderun is located in the Hatay province - in the immediate vicinity of the border with Syria.

        http://politikus.ru/events/8159-iduschee-s-ukrainy-sudno-s-nelegalnym-oruzhiem-i
        -boepripasami-na-bortu-zaderzhano-v-grecii.html

        ... According to the website "Maritime Bulletin", the ship is currently docked off the island of Rhodes. On board were found, according to media reports citing Greek authorities, 20 AK-47 assault rifles and explosives.

        Mass media also report that the cargo ship left Nikolaev on October 25, and was in Istanbul from October 30 to November 3.

        The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is checking information about the detention of a ship with weapons allegedly from the Ukrainian port off the coast of Greece, the press service of the department said.

        In the past, the ship was already used to transport drugs ...

        http://mignews.com.ua/ru/articles/148612.html
      2. 0
        11 November 2013 18: 50
        Yes, of course, I would like to work out amers according to such a scheme. But! China is now not the one that was in the 60s. They will not bite, it will not work.
      3. +1
        12 November 2013 02: 50
        The most liquid pledge of a debtor is "an apartment taken as a pledge", that is, the territory of the United States itself ... Here it will not work to write off debts for pretty eyes. The United States owes everyone, so the collectors will work together. The main thing is not to fight when dividing the "apartment".
    3. 0
      11 November 2013 16: 01
      What about returning its gold to China?
      Unmeasured billions secured by knowingly erroneous bills?
    4. +3
      11 November 2013 19: 33
      and it amazes me the ability of Amers to create a problem to unwind it up to what size and then make the whole world into this de created by them ..
      1. +1
        11 November 2013 20: 10
        Quote: Siberian German
        I am amazed at the ability of amers to create a problem to promote it


        everything is simple:

        "create a problem - solve a problem - live for the difference"
    5. 0
      11 November 2013 21: 20
      But do not you think that this is a shadow on the wattle fence. In big politics, a narrow circle of people is tied up, their senators can carry anything, some out of thought, some out of ignorance, others in general for the purpose of provocation - the country is strained. After all, we also drive a wave, but there is not even ripples on the water. Judge for yourself the economies are tied up, but from a military point of view, if the US uses nuclear weapons from China, there will be no stone on the stone, and it is mainly necessary to bomb the south there. The East is a delicate matter, but on the tighter USA, like China, we can also see from the East, those are still swindlers.
  2. +7
    11 November 2013 15: 38
    Russia, China, who next wants to join the enemies of America? In turn, su (k) other children, in turn! laughing
    1. +3
      11 November 2013 17: 54
      major071 (3) SU Today, 15: 38 New
      "Russia, China, who's next ..." .. A nightmare of the US State Department ..
      The RIC format - Russia, India and China - has established itself as a platform for coordinating consolidated decisions on the most pressing issues of the international and regional agenda.
      ... meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia, India and China, New Delhi, November 10, 2013 ...
      http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline/7EF3C6769520479F44257C200021B459
      http://www.mid.ru/bdomp/brp_4.nsf/newsline
      1. Walker1975
        0
        11 November 2013 21: 27
        Do not worry - how many contradictions are in China and India and in China and Russia ... they are still very far away, before working out decisions against the USA
  3. Lesnik
    +5
    11 November 2013 15: 38
    So let each other eat and as long as possible wink
  4. +5
    11 November 2013 15: 43
    According to Rohrabacher, Chinese hackers who infiltrate US government and research centers also pose a serious danger to the United States.


    As Snowden showed, Chinese hackers are just children compared to the NSA listening to 35 heads of state and half the world.
    The most arrogant and most important spies are the United States itself, with numerous special services which, alas, have no equal.
    1. 0
      12 November 2013 03: 05
      Money, alas, both entices the best and bribes the stupid ... But the secret services, which have no equal, I will not assert such a statement ... Then you were "bribed" along the way. But at the level of "persuasion". You believed the advertisements, and the advertisement is the ICE of trade, that is, the worldview of a person, you were told that women with wide hips are ugly (although this is a sign of healthy offspring), you believed ... You were told that blondes are stupid, you think so .. You were told that unb is cool ... Well, you still believe in it !!! And what kind of Snowden is there ???? It's just dandruff ... Hmm.
  5. +9
    11 November 2013 15: 43
    -Do you see the enemies ???
    -not
    -That I do not see ... But they are !!!
    Campaign overdose in the USA ...))
    1. +20
      11 November 2013 16: 07
      Quote: Andrew-88
      U.S. Campaign Overdose


      they are now considering a law prohibiting the use of the word "woman" as an offensive allusion to gender. They suggest using a word that is more in line with the modern realities of their society - "Vagina American".
      1. Alex toll
        +2
        11 November 2013 17: 34
        ahahhaha) _))))
      2. 10kAzAk01
        +4
        11 November 2013 18: 05
        they are now considering a law prohibiting the use of the word "woman" as an offensive allusion to gender. They suggest using a word that is more in line with the modern realities of their society - "Vagina American".
        and I suggest in Europe "pop-European" laughing
        1. Sergh
          +2
          12 November 2013 03: 00
          Quote: 10kAzAk01
          I suggest in Europe "pop-European"

          Modest ...
          You probably wanted to say Eurocop.
      3. +1
        11 November 2013 18: 32
        Killed ... laughing You are the best on the site today !!!!!
      4. 0
        12 November 2013 06: 06
        Quote: APES
        they are now considering a law prohibiting the use of the word "woman" as an offensive allusion to gender. They suggest using a word that is more in line with the modern realities of their society - "Vagina American".

        Strange - I live here, but I have not heard this, and it sounds more like an anecdote. However, if this is a joke, then it is quite funny. laughing
  6. Airman
    +4
    11 November 2013 15: 47
    The Americans understand very well how the strengthening of China could end for them, this is not Iraq, and therefore they are trying to take action, but, in my opinion, the train has already left for them, and it’s time for us to think carefully before it’s too late.
    1. HAM
      +1
      11 November 2013 15: 59
      That's right, they will eat, but who will give them.
      1. +3
        11 November 2013 16: 58
        Quote: HAM
        The Americans understand very well how the strengthening of China could end for them

        Well, the Americans are definitely stupid, they destroyed the USSR and created China by developing the economy. Or greed is overwhelming the brains.
        1. 0
          11 November 2013 21: 39
          Why stupid, they completed the minimum task, the Union collapsed. In general, increasingly less powerful countries, the same the USA, China, Russia, India, Iran, and so on. these are March cats, they take each other for fear and this will last until one of them has a breakthrough technology that guarantees personal preservation in case of conflict.
        2. +3
          11 November 2013 23: 21
          Quote: Yuri Ya.
          Americans are definitely stupid
          I would share, however, the concept of: so to speak flies to the left, cutlets to the right.
          Americans, if you remove the blinkers (media) - do not want war. They are no more bloodthirsty than us.
          The miserable bunch of Zionists who have dirtied the brains of the Americans — they want war, a decrease in the population, and the destruction of the gene pool of Europe, Russia, and the USA.THEY ENEMIES, and the Americans are victims, like us and the Chinese, Syrians, etc.
          1. +1
            12 November 2013 01: 32
            Quote: a52333
            The miserable bunch of Zionists who have dirtied the brains of the Americans — they want war, a decrease in the population, and the destruction of the gene pool of Europe, Russia, and the USA. THEY ARE ENEMIES, and the Americans are victims, like us and the Chinese, Syrians, etc.

            Alexey! I subscribe to your every word!
  7. ed65b
    +2
    11 November 2013 16: 04
    Rohrabacher accused Beijing of “sending tens of thousands of students to the United States to collect classified information and, above all, in the field of armaments, in order to then use this information for the interests of the Chinese army.”

    Ec news for America. We already know about this for about 20 years. You need to ask. fool
    1. +1
      11 November 2013 16: 32
      Quote: ed65b
      Ec news for America



      forgot about it yet:


      Ed Lee, 43 th mayor of San Francisco, he is the first Asian-American (CHINESE) mayor in the history of the city.
  8. 3935333
    +1
    11 November 2013 16: 08
    By the way, in the Asia-Pacific, we have not just interests, and there are clashes of interests with the Chinese and Yapis and with ami, and we have not everything so cloudless there!
  9. +4
    11 November 2013 16: 13
    Strengthening any country in the world that could cast doubt on the hegemony of the United States will not be liked by them as a process, regardless of what that country is.
    The logic of the States is simple to impossibility: he who is not with us is against us; everything that can be taken away from weak and developing countries must be taken away; if someone raises his head - it must be cut off.

    Well, the conclusions from this should be drawn by those themselves against whom such a policy is directed. And we, including.
    1. Umar
      0
      11 November 2013 22: 33
      That's right, right to the point! Yes .
  10. +6
    11 November 2013 16: 14
    China is not Iraq and not Syria, then their teeth will be blamed for them both economically and militarily. They in Afghanistan did not give a fret and in China even more so. Their limited contingent will drop in (if it can of course), and dissolve among billions.
    1. HAM
      +4
      11 November 2013 16: 29
      China has already introduced a "limited contingent" to the states. (Read Rohrabacher)
  11. +5
    11 November 2013 16: 26
    Well, how the Yankees do not like the strong! They saw that China is growing into a giant monster (Russia needs to think about this too). The Americans were afraid, more and more enemies of the United States appear on our small planet. Change diapers, gentlemen from Washington.
  12. Ahmed Osmanov
    +3
    11 November 2013 16: 38
    Read this article MANDATORY! What do the Chinese think about our army.
    http://warfiles.ru/show-42413-kitaycy-o-russkoy-armii.html
    1. +4
      11 November 2013 17: 05
      And US ... laughing
    2. 10kAzAk01
      0
      11 November 2013 18: 13
      The greatest Russian poet, whose name in Chinese sounds like Pu-Chi-Kin (普希金) - Universal Hope for Gold, is translated from Russian as Da-Pao - a big gun. It is noteworthy that the killed Pu-Chi-Kin was precisely from a pistol.

      I almost broke my gut in this place! laughing
      1. Ahmed Osmanov
        0
        11 November 2013 18: 27
        Haha Dmitry, I also almost died with a laugh. The Chinese have a good analytical conclusion about our army. fellow
      2. +1
        11 November 2013 19: 26
        Russian Confucius - Porfiry Ivanov - also sounds epic. Yes, laughed, thanks.
  13. +1
    11 November 2013 17: 23
    Yes, the normal situation for Russia while the dragon and the eagle will sort things out, the bear will have time to solve its problems.
    1. +1
      11 November 2013 22: 10
      Well, there are just a lot of problems. And to solve them you need time and a big will.
    2. -3
      11 November 2013 22: 16
      Quote: Semurg
      Yes, the normal situation for Russia while the dragon and the eagle will sort things out, the bear will have time to solve its problems.


      Neither the dragon nor the eagle will leave the bear alone, that's for sure, you should not dream.

      Quote: lonely
      it takes time and a lot of will.


      It takes time and big war, not a will. And moreover, the bear’s war with the dragon, which both the eagle and the dragon will strive for.
  14. Jogan-xnumx
    +1
    11 November 2013 17: 23
    ... appropriate lessons must be drawn from history and, if no conclusions are reached, the new Pearl Harbor may catch the USA by surprise ...

    Laughed! If only the old Pearl Harbor would not have taken them by surprise ... laughing
    ... the American political establishment is grabbing at the "U-turn towards Asia" proclaimed by the Obama administration ...

    Yeah, from Europe, the asshole has already received. lol Now, from the side of Asia, for symmetry, we must slap the slap in the face. Then it remains only for the penguins to knock out ...
    1. kelevra
      0
      16 December 2013 01: 50
      If suddenly someone does not know, Pearl Harbor was built by Japan with the support of the Americans themselves! This was done to get into the war and start earning money on it! The same situation and from September 11, 2001, urgently needed to enter Iraq and Afghanistan, how to enlist the support of the people, a provocation.
  15. +3
    11 November 2013 17: 25
    Yes, late Americans combed their eggs, they still do not know what war is. This is not carpet bombing, foreign territory. They themselves raised miracles and now turnips are scratched. If only once Russia see from the side, how forelocks fly, our enemies.
  16. 0
    11 November 2013 17: 30
    Neither China nor the United States have clearly defined their vital interests in the vast expanses of the western Pacific. China has issued various unofficial statements regarding its "key interests", which sometimes go beyond the territorial and political integrity of the mainland and claims to dominate Taiwan, this is where the interests of the United States and China intersect.
  17. +1
    11 November 2013 17: 42
    Yes Boch with them, can kill one another.
  18. 0
    11 November 2013 17: 43
    Quote: mountain
    Yes, late Americans combed their eggs, they still do not know what war is. This is not carpet bombing, foreign territory. They themselves raised miracles and now turnips are scratched. If only once Russia see from the side, how forelocks fly, our enemies.


    For Russia it would be, oh, how to the article ... We are always in the center of all world fights! And if only to see who is fighting from the side .. Deliveries of "humanitarian" aid and so and so for gold, etc. And then, when they gnaw each other apart, pull apart in different directions (bring in peacekeeping troops under the auspices of the UN ..) withdraw everything else .. Eh dreams of dreams ..)))
    1. +2
      11 November 2013 17: 51
      maybe Alyasochku under the guise, closer to home
  19. geto123
    +2
    11 November 2013 17: 47
    I read somewhere that Amer Sinatar said that we will have problems with Ukraine and China, the United States will play with Russia
    1. +2
      11 November 2013 18: 22
      first, the Americans will set China on Russia, the Chinese will send Siberia, and then, as always, the cream of the Americans. stop
  20. +1
    11 November 2013 18: 09
    Quote:
    "The warlike appeals were also picked up by the oldest member of the US House of Representatives, Congressman William R. Keating, who criticized the policy of cutting the US military budget, which, in his opinion, makes the ranks of American allies uncertain about Washington's ability to protect their interests."

    We have already passed this, when the military psychosis in the states led to suicides and their generals were thrown out the window shouting: "RUSSIANS ARE COMING!"
    What should be expected when a half-lard of Chinese go in their nightmares ??? am
  21. SHARK
    0
    11 November 2013 19: 24
    Good evening, no one and a half lards will go anywhere, just the Americans will do what they always did again, only from a different direction, if there used to be the Middle East, now Asia is next in line, continue to play on long-standing conflicts, creating terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, and the Japs are like that, contraceptives in a word, what kind of building up what can they say if God forbid what happens and this American design of the fakashima will make their islands altogether unsuitable for life? By the way, the name Rorabacher suggests the role of the star of David in this debate.
  22. 0
    11 November 2013 19: 45
    [quote] [/ quote] He identified China as a clear international threat in his quest for dominance in the Asia-Pacific region, questioning the legitimacy of China’s territorial claims in the East China and South China Seas.
    The United States already needs to think about its territorial integrity and still cannot calm down, or rather do not want to. They understand that the collapse of their system is not far off, so they will go to the end in "death throes." And World War II will seem like a small military incident , no matter how scary it sounds.
  23. 0
    11 November 2013 20: 24
    The article is a good one, stating the fact that the Americans protect their interests in the Asia-Pacific region, in particular, by the hands of Japan. There can be no other.
  24. +1
    11 November 2013 20: 24
    The article is a good one, stating the fact that the Americans protect their interests in the Asia-Pacific region, in particular, by the hands of Japan. There can be no other.
    1. 0
      11 November 2013 22: 30
      I think so too hi rather, the Japanese about the island (which is with China) were not divided and any violations of the border will be screaming at full throat hi
  25. 0
    11 November 2013 20: 32
    Americans often use the classic principles of the art of war, such as "divide and conquer", "hang on to the ears and make you believe even the most incredible" and many others. I wonder who they will play against each other this time.
  26. GREAT RUSSIA
    +1
    11 November 2013 22: 09
    I didn’t see anything new in this article. I wrote about this a hundred times myself. The United States began to prepare for a confrontation with China at the beginning of this century. Not for this, China began a policy of reorienting to domestic demand, this is to reduce the economic damage that will be inflicted by US sanctions. China takes the Soviet Union as an example of this policy. The USSR also focused on domestic demand, and only the military-industrial complex was exported. But unlike the USSR, China will suffer very terrible economic damage if the US imposes sanctions, After all, the main trading partners of China are the EU, the USA, South Korea and other countries that have close ties with the West.
    Here the question is different. What to do RUSSIA in this situation. It is clear that the Asian region is the main prospect in the development of not only RUSSIA, but the whole world.
  27. +1
    11 November 2013 23: 02
    I just thought about territorial disputes! But if the world community, "forced the Americans" to give their territory, to the original owners, that is, the Indians, what to do with all this rabble then?)))) In my opinion, in the history of mankind, not a single nation has captured the continents! their "exclusive" impudence!)))
  28. 0
    12 November 2013 03: 38
    Meanwhile, China is really a threat, and not only to America, x ... at it, but also for us. In my opinion, China is already seriously looking at the Russian Far East as something of its own.
  29. 0
    12 November 2013 10: 05
    America can be puffed up as much as she wants - China can go bankrupt at one point, only this is not necessary, he himself will lose a huge market. But the fact that China licks its eyes on Siberia is alarming. While our government will deploy with the development of Siberia and consolidation of the population there - China will already own most of the deposits and the Chinese will become the titular nation. Unfortunately, Russia is positioning itself in the eastern direction as a raw materials appendage of the ESPO and other projects to which this is living proof. The current government of the country is not capable of creating anything new, it can only eat through what was created during the period of stagnation.
  30. 0
    12 November 2013 10: 21
    For the Far East to catch China, even the United States is not profitable. What is the point of strengthening China and so growing. They rather feed China to Japan. But now it’s getting harder and harder to do something with the wrong hands, the proud node is pulled too tightly.
  31. kelevra
    0
    16 December 2013 01: 47
    Let them build up what they want! China is not under their control! Soon, China will tell the USA where to go and what to do!

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