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US unlikely to contain China's rise - People's Daily Online
(People's Daily)17:06, November 10, 2011 Edited and translated by People's Daily Online
Beijing, Nov.10 (People's Daily Online) -- Recently, the United States has made frequent high-profile moves in Asia. After the U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta finishes his visit in Japan, South Korea and Indonesia, the U.S. President will attend an informal summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Hawaii on Nov. 12 and Nov. 13. The United States is paying increasing attention to Asia. Regarding this issue, a People's Daily reporter interviewed three experts on the issue.
Huang Ping, head of the Institute of American Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Shen Jiru, researcher from the Institute of World Economics and Politics under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Reporter: What are the characteristics of America's current Asia policy? How are Asian countries reacting to the policy?
Shen Jiru: Properly managing relations with China is at the core of America's current Asia policy. The Chinese and U.S. economies are highly interdependent, and the United States needs China's cooperation and support in the handling of many issues.
The increasing common interests between the two countries have become a major obstacle to the U.S. policy of containing China. A main purpose of the United States' "return to Asia" is to obtain enormous benefits from China's rise, so it is unlikely to be used by certain Asian countries to counter China's rise. A few Asian countries do expect to take advantage of the United States to contain China, but that is just wishful thinking.
Huang Ping: Making full use of "smart power" (combination of hard and soft powers) is a feature of the United States' policies towards Asia. On the one hand, the United States is strengthening its economic, security and military relations with its traditional alliances.
On the other hand, it is also establishing or widening its relations with emerging countries and regions. In this way, the United States could not only continue being present in Asia but also continue playing the leader role in Asia.
However, most Asian countries actually do not want to take sides between the United States and China, and instead they are willing to deal with things based on their own interests. Of course, how well they could manage the balance between China and the United States depends on their skills. In a word, it is not practical economically for Asia to go without China, and it is also not practical in terms of security for Asia to go without the United States.
(People's Daily)17:06, November 10, 2011 Edited and translated by People's Daily Online
Beijing, Nov.10 (People's Daily Online) -- Recently, the United States has made frequent high-profile moves in Asia. After the U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta finishes his visit in Japan, South Korea and Indonesia, the U.S. President will attend an informal summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Hawaii on Nov. 12 and Nov. 13. The United States is paying increasing attention to Asia. Regarding this issue, a People's Daily reporter interviewed three experts on the issue.
Huang Ping, head of the Institute of American Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Shen Jiru, researcher from the Institute of World Economics and Politics under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Reporter: What are the characteristics of America's current Asia policy? How are Asian countries reacting to the policy?
Shen Jiru: Properly managing relations with China is at the core of America's current Asia policy. The Chinese and U.S. economies are highly interdependent, and the United States needs China's cooperation and support in the handling of many issues.
The increasing common interests between the two countries have become a major obstacle to the U.S. policy of containing China. A main purpose of the United States' "return to Asia" is to obtain enormous benefits from China's rise, so it is unlikely to be used by certain Asian countries to counter China's rise. A few Asian countries do expect to take advantage of the United States to contain China, but that is just wishful thinking.
Huang Ping: Making full use of "smart power" (combination of hard and soft powers) is a feature of the United States' policies towards Asia. On the one hand, the United States is strengthening its economic, security and military relations with its traditional alliances.
On the other hand, it is also establishing or widening its relations with emerging countries and regions. In this way, the United States could not only continue being present in Asia but also continue playing the leader role in Asia.
However, most Asian countries actually do not want to take sides between the United States and China, and instead they are willing to deal with things based on their own interests. Of course, how well they could manage the balance between China and the United States depends on their skills. In a word, it is not practical economically for Asia to go without China, and it is also not practical in terms of security for Asia to go without the United States.
