6:58AM
NPR's All Things Considered: My appearance yesterday on US-China relations
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 6:58AM The segment:
Analyst Spells Out U.S. Interests In Pacific Rim
November 17, 2011
President Obama used his trip to the Pacific Rim this week to announce plans for a new American military base in Darwin, Australia. The move changes the stance of U.S. forces in the region — countering the growing strength and presence of China's military. Guy Raz talks with Thomas P. M. Barnett, chief analyst for Wikistrat, a consultancy that provides geopolitical analysis. He's also executive vice president of the Center for America-China Partnership.
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Reader Comments (1)
I think a military base with a personell of 2500 Gis at the "outback of Asia, in Darwin won´t be any threat for China.I don´t see an "encirclement" of China by this military base, even not in a symbolic sense.That´s pure Chinese paranoia and propaganda.Darwin is far away from China.If the USA set up military bases in the Philipines, India or Vietnam, that would be another case.What´s more important are the economic issues: The Transpacific Partnership (TPP), which wants to become a free trade area that might exclude China and include Japan and Southkorea. On the other side China doesn´t seem to be very ambitious to join the TPP and declared at the three party summit that it will build a FTA with Japan and Southkorea.As it seems Japan and Southkorea want to join both clubs and don´t want to become the pinballs of US-Chinese rivalary.