Posted on Oct 27, 2015
Is diplomacy between the U.S. and China all for show?
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I could not help but smile when I read this (especially the part about Military to Military contact), "Since then, the two governments have set about implementing the stated objectives. Top American and Chinese officials have exchanged visits and institutionalized their exchanges on major strategic and economic issues. Military-to-military contacts have been restarted, opening an important channel of communication. And at the unofficial level, so-called track-two groups have explored possible evolutions of the U.S.-Chinese relationship." I smiled because I thought to myself, yes they have, especially in reference to the military talking to each other in light of recent events.
Anyway the POTUS and China's President made a big show of cooperating with each other in the form of diplomacy to have better relations with each other, but this isn't the goal of either side. The U.S. wants to contain China, while China wants to exert it's influence and power in the world. How can we have diplomacy when each side's desire is the opposite of the other. Yes I know the saying about opposites attracting, however, if this attraction is going to be positive and have positive outcomes, is yet to be learned. The actions of our countries speak much louder than the words they are writing on paper and we're not acting like we want to compromise with each other. This isn't the way to reach a stable platform of relations with each other.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2012-03-01/future-us-chinese-relations
Anyway the POTUS and China's President made a big show of cooperating with each other in the form of diplomacy to have better relations with each other, but this isn't the goal of either side. The U.S. wants to contain China, while China wants to exert it's influence and power in the world. How can we have diplomacy when each side's desire is the opposite of the other. Yes I know the saying about opposites attracting, however, if this attraction is going to be positive and have positive outcomes, is yet to be learned. The actions of our countries speak much louder than the words they are writing on paper and we're not acting like we want to compromise with each other. This isn't the way to reach a stable platform of relations with each other.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2012-03-01/future-us-chinese-relations
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CPT (Join to see) I view this relationship like the US/Russian, two forces so large that we must work together.
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There is certainly an image improvement goal for both e USA an the Peoples Republic of China CPT (Join to see). Since they hold a fair amount of dollars and they have a positive trade balance [primarily by keeping their currency low] there is also a mutual economic component to the relations. We want to increase our trade with China in a manner which reminds me of the interdependence on European countries prior to WWI. I think this is a mistake.
Militarily since they are a significant power with influence on North Korea and serve as competition to Russia in the far east it makes sense to maintain communication with China but not to allow them to access our economic, military and scientific secrets.
Militarily since they are a significant power with influence on North Korea and serve as competition to Russia in the far east it makes sense to maintain communication with China but not to allow them to access our economic, military and scientific secrets.
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The problem is that every country wants to hold a "monopoly" of power in the world and wants to contain other nations. That is what I believe leads to conflicts. US - China relations are very economic, and can help each other with cooperation.
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