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2011-03-10

Is "China challenge" imagination of the US to keep power?

Comments on Geoffrey Garrett “China challenge will bind us closer to Washington”, 10/03/2011, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/china-challenge-will-bind-us-closer-to-washington/story-e6frg6zo-1226018636983

The so called China challenges are likely to be highly exaggerated and appear to be a product of an extension of the cold war mentality.

Don't get me wrong and China is and will be different in some areas from the west, but it will surely be responsible stakeholders of the global affairs.

It is bizarre that the failure of Copenhagen has been largely and singly attributed to China. It is beyond belief that China had that power then and could single handed bring down Copenhagen. It was more likely that the divide between the industrialised and developing especially the emerging ones that resulted in the failure of reaching an agreement, particularly in terms of binding reduction targets for them.

Since the collapse of the former USSR, the US was keen to target China, even though 9.11 temporarily changed its priority.

Now it is getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan wars, so it may resume its earlier priority of targeting China.

But the world has changed so much and China has largely integrated into the global economy, all that makes it difficult for the US to contain China.

Further, the shift in the global economy means it is virtually impossible for it to do it, even if its wishes to.

PS: the TPP is likely to be a distracter for the DOHA round and is likely to be another US strategy to bypass global institutions to achieve its narrow the narrow objectives of the US. It is uncertain whether the main west pacific economic powers will join it or not. If they don’t, then it is unlikely to be a true TPP.

Besides, the world is changing and both the US and Australia also need to keep with it. The mentality of past and the desire to keep it unchanged that way may not be realistic and achievable, and is seriously out of date.

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