US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
    Opinion / Op-Ed Contributors

    Obama's cheap shot at China misguided

    By Stephen Harner (China Daily) Updated: 2015-01-29 07:42

    Obama's cheap shot at China misguided

    US President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 20, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]

    Using the State of the Union address to deliver a "cheap shot" is hard to imagine, but this is what President Barack Obama did on Jan 20, when he declared "...as we speak, China wants to write the rules for the world's fastest growing region".

    And what he said next was just as provocative: "That would put our workers and businesses at a disadvantage. Why should we let that happen? We should write the rules..." Obama was clearly referring here to the US-crafted Trans-Pacific Partnership, seeking a way to spur the Congress to grant him the "fast track" authority needed to bring talks to conclusion.

    That he would allege a competitive threat or rivalry with China, which is not participating in the TPP talks and was never invited to do so, to trigger congressional action evidences once again how the Obama administration has cynically made the myth of a "China threat" a central feature of its "pivot to Asia" political and economic strategy.

    When first introduced, this was Pentagon-driven military and security-oriented. Its goal was to maintain US military and political hegemony in the region by reorienting toward China and augmenting through new weapons, protocols, and battle plans, Cold War alliances with Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia.

    Since then the "pivot" has been embellished and informed by a distinctly neoliberal "universal values" agenda that conflates US political and economic ideology with commercial interests and by preventing any substantive change to the "rules" established in the post-World War II "American century".

    For Obama the only rules that can or should be followed - particularly, in Asia - are those recognized by the United States: "In the Asia-Pacific, we are modernizing alliances while making sure that other nations play by the rules - in how they trade, how they resolve maritime disputes, how they participate in meeting common international challenges...."

    Many US readers will find nothing remarkable or untoward in such a statement. They fail to understand how people in Asia read and respond to the same words.

    Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

    Most Viewed Today's Top News
    ...
    曰韩人妻无码一区二区三区综合部| 久久无码国产专区精品| 久久久无码精品亚洲日韩蜜臀浪潮| 久99久无码精品视频免费播放 | 色欲A∨无码蜜臀AV免费播| 日本不卡中文字幕| 国产V片在线播放免费无码| 97无码人妻福利免费公开在线视频 | 无码av中文一二三区| 未满小14洗澡无码视频网站| 久久精品中文字幕一区| 最新中文字幕av无码专区| 精品亚洲成α人无码成α在线观看 | 久久精品无码免费不卡| 亚洲精品无码乱码成人 | 亚洲成AV人在线播放无码| 人妻精品久久久久中文字幕| 无码内射中文字幕岛国片| 亚洲欧美中文字幕高清在线| 911国产免费无码专区| 日韩精品人妻系列无码专区| 亚洲国产成人精品无码区在线观看| 色婷婷久久综合中文久久一本 | 日韩久久久久中文字幕人妻| 欧美日韩中文在线| 美丽姑娘免费观看在线观看中文版| 中文在线中文A| 在线综合亚洲中文精品| 熟妇人妻中文a∨无码| 精品久久亚洲中文无码| 最好看的2018中文在线观看| 亚洲AV无码一区二区大桥未久| 老子影院午夜精品无码| 久久青青草原亚洲av无码 | 日本按摩高潮a级中文片| 天堂√中文最新版在线| 欧美人妻aⅴ中文字幕| 亚洲伦另类中文字幕| 中文字幕精品无码一区二区| 无码丰满熟妇juliaann与黑人| 免费无码又爽又刺激网站|