The Real "China Threat"

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It is very impressive that this author has a big message for the world.

The real 'China threat'

By Chalmers Johnson

I recall 40 years ago, when I was a new professor working in the field of Chinese and Japanese international relations, that Edwin O Reischauer once commented, "The great payoff from our victory of 1945 was a permanently disarmed Japan." Born in Japan and a Japanese historian at Harvard, Reischauer served as US ambassador to Tokyo in the administrations of presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Strange to say, since the end of the Cold War in 1991 and particularly under the administration of George W Bush, the United States has been doing everything in its power to encourage and even accelerate Japanese rearmament.

Such a development promotes hostility between China and Japan, the two superpowers of East Asia, sabotages possible peaceful solutions in those two problem areas, Taiwan and North Korea, left over from the Chinese and Korean civil wars, and lays the foundation for a possible future Sino-American conflict that the United States would almost surely lose. It is unclear whether the ideologues and war lovers of Washington understand what they are unleashing - a possible confrontation between the world's fastest-growing industrial economy, China, and the world's second-most-productive, albeit declining, economy, Japan; a confrontation that the United States would have caused and in which it might well be consumed.

Let me make clear that in East Asia we are not talking about a little regime-change war of the sort that Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney advocate. After all, the most salient characteristic of international relations during the last century was the inability of the rich, established powers - Great Britain and the United States - to adjust peacefully to the emergence of new centers of power in Germany, Japan and Russia. The result was two exceedingly bloody World Wars, a 45-year-long Cold War between Russia and the "West", and innumerable wars of national liberation (such as the quarter-century-long one in Vietnam) against the arrogance and racism of European, US and Japanese imperialism and colonialism.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GC19Ad05.html

Also, an interview by author

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Chalmers Johnson

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http://www.gurusonline.tv/uk/conteudos/gu_report.asp

[Jack MacKelly]

I've seen many posts on this

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http://www.space.com/news/china_dod_030801.html

Financial Times

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....Consider, as well, the EU's rapid progress toward military independence. American protests failed to prevent the EU establishing its own military planning agency independent of the NATO alliance (and thus of Washington). Europe is building up its own rapid reaction force. And despite US resistance, the EU is developing Galileo, its own satellite network, which will break the monopoly of the US global positioning satellite system. The participation of China in Europe's Galileo project has alarmed the US military. But China shares an interest with other aspiring space powers in preventing American control of space for military and commercial uses. Even while collaborating with Europe on Galileo, China is partnering Brazil to launch satellites. And in an unprecedented move, China recently agreed to host Russian forces for joint Russo-Chinese military exercises.

http://www.socialistworld.net/index2.html?/eng/2005/02/14europe.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37089-2005Feb19?language=printer

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http://specialguests.com/guests/viewnews.cgi?id=EEpZFykllyezoKfOGQ&style=Full%20Article

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