By Kerry Givens
The first reason is China has already done so. There will be any number of opportunities for cooperation with the Chinese. There also has to be realization that we are, and will be for the foreseeable future, the main and only competition for China. China’s economic policy was has been coined “The Five Year Plan”. The plan, as laid out by U.S analyst, is for China to oversee the acceleration and restructuring of its economy to a free market economy.
When the economic policies of China are examined, one can clearly see that the objective is to become the world’s largest economy thus there is an overt desire to influence world economic affairs by loaning countries that have currency shortages large sums of cash at low interest rates thus giving them a large sum of debt to hold and use to influence international policies when favorable to China. This is not the goal of any one particular interest with China rather the collective goal of both the Chinese people and the Chinese government. China has a unified position on subjects such as reunification of Taiwan, Tibet and its role in the South China Sea as well as on issues such as monetary policies and censorship.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) spend a vast amount of their country’s wealth on arms and anti-access weapon systems in a hope that it can alter the calculus of U.S. policy makers. China has increasingly placed much of the wealth gained from its economic explosion into modernizing its military technology. The border issues with India and regional conflict with its neighbors Japan and Vietnam as well the massive U.S naval presence in the Pacific gives the Chinese great pause.
Dr. Harry Kissinger has been noted to say that he understands the Chinese resentment of American interference in the PRC’s internal issues and affairs. Dr Kissinger states the Chinese are content to remain within their historical realm of influence as long as those boundaries support their national and international goals. What happens when natural resources become insufficient to support its vast population? The acknowledgement of Chinese intent and aggression by the White House that China’s goal is to modify the existing balance in Pacific and in Asia abroad, will send a clear signal to our regional allies that the United States is ready to compete aggressively in Pacific and protect our interest there as well.