Is China the victim of a campaign mounted by the United States to turn the nations adjacent to the South China Sea against Beijing? According to columnist Liang Fengming of China’s state-run Huanqui, the U.S. is seeking to demonize China by inflaming territorial disputes between China and other states like Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, South Korea and others – which are none of America’s business.
For the state-run Huanqui, columnist Liang Fengming writes in part:
Those who are impeding freedom of navigation in the South China Sea are not from China, but are precisely those who have made a habit of blaming others. … the U.S. doesn’t hesitate to openly distort the truth and fabricate rumors to discredit China, but it isn’t as simple as deliberately provoking China. On the one hand, there is indeed a dispute in the region of the South China Sea. The U.S. is “forming cliques” and “speaking out on a matter of principle” to oppose the Chinese side undoubtedly so that other ASEAN countries favor American intervention in their local affairs. On the other hand, by vigorously advocating a “threat to the freedom of navigation and security in the South China Sea,” the U.S. has given the international community a false impression of the worrying situation in the South China Sea. As a footnote, some Western politicians have fabricated the idea of the “China threat” to drive a wedge between China and other Southeast Asian nations as a way of restraining China’s development. The United States doesn’t listen to China’s advice and does everything possible to make the South China Sea issue international and multilateral; this is precisely Washington’s purpose.
The South China Sea issue is a regional affair. International practice shows that the best solution is for parties to a dispute to find a resolution through bilateral negotiations. Asia is on the rise and Asian countries have the capacity to resolve their own concerns. U.S. interference in this issue only makes things more complicated and difficult to resolve.
The actions of the United States in the South China Sea once again prove that despite China’s peaceful development, which has become a mainstream movement in the world and is widely recognized by most countries, the U.S. continues to cling to its Cold War mentality and the logic that the “most powerful must dominate.” It is conceited, excludes outsiders and cannot tolerate China’s growing national strength, regional influence and reasonable growth.
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