By taking part in military exercises in the Yellow Sea with its ally South Korea, is the United States ‘deliberately provoking’ China’s people and the People’s Liberation Army? According to this strongly-worded article from the state-controlled Global Times, America needs to learn respect for the feelings of people in other nations, and if it goes ahead with its plans, it will lose out in the end.
At least in verbal terms, this article shows that the gloves are well and truly off, with promises of military, political and economic consequences to what Beijing considers wayward U.S. behavior.
For China’s state-run Global Times, Major General Luo Yuan, deputy secretary general of the PLA Academy of Military Sciences, writes in part:
The United States should not believe that it can easily handle any issue with its many aircraft carriers. There is something more powerful than aircraft carriers, and that is popular support. No one can go against public opinion.
How can the U.S. expect China to offer its help if it obstructs it this way? Imagine what the consequence would be if China’s biggest debtor nation challenges its leading creditor? … Accustomed to going their own way without concern for the reaction of others, perhaps some Americans don’t care about Chinese public opinion. If so, bring it on: the Chinese people will stand up against all comers.
They should know that China’s rise is the general trend, and no weapons can halt it. China is the world’s largest market, so offending it means losing, at least in part – market share. Will ordinary Americans allow that sort of thing to happen? Without American support, how will Obama be elected to a second term?
America always advertises itself as the most democratic country. Now China should help the United States learn a lesson in democracy. It is time for the U.S. to learn to respect others, listen to public opinion in other nations, and resolve problems with debate, not military measures.
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