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China did not bother America or the EU until it became successful in science, technology and innovation

China did not bother America or the EU until it became successful in science, technology and innovation
GEOPOLITICS AND FACTS
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Objavljeno: 11.06.2021 / 19:30
Autor: Jasna Plevnik
ANALYSIS - Washington’s geopolitics is the biggest threat to world stability. All American presidents have pursued foreign policy as geopolitics.

Their advisers from H. Kissinger, Z. Brzezinski, T. Donillon to K. Campbell used the knowledge of this discipline to help America realize its national interests and maintain economic and strategic or military control not only over the world but also over future processes. would develop in the direction of dismantling the unipolar configuration of power in the world.

What has changed in American geostrategies are the parts of the world that America needs to control to pursue its interests. First it was the USSR, as the "heratland" of Eurasia, then the Middle East, which was once crucial for its energy security, and today it is the Indo-Pacific area that stretches from the east coast of Africa to the Pacific island states.

Somehow it is artificially so diverse an area that includes the Indian and Pacific Oceans, China and India, Japan and Indonesia and where 60% of the world's population lives which produces more than 50% of global GDP and is called a "region". Besides, it seems that the word "Asia" is hidden by that name. The German government in its "guidelines" also has doubts about the name, so it writes that the area is not "geographically clearly demarcated and is differently defined by different actors."

In May 2018, the U.S. government changed the name of the United States Pacific Command to the “Indo-Pacific U.S. Command”. The Pentagon’s China Task Force is due to compile reports on China-related issues soon, including “provocations”. Ely Ratner, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs in the Biden administration, has the floor.

The American interest in controlling that part of the world is a consequence of the process of shifting economic power from the Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific area which has become one of the major points of development, trade and wealth of the world. It is home to the world’s major sea routes, and through the Strait of Malacca, the Indian Ocean is connected to the South China Sea. The new administration could try to take advantage of the fact that there are many maritime and land territorial issues in the Indo-Pacific area, not to resolve these issues but to use them to strategically put pressure on China and thus slow down its development.

In current geopolitical analyzes, this part of the world has the highest rank in the geopolitical hierarchy of spatial structures of the world. The Indo-Pacific is spoken of as a new "great chessboard," but these are not exactly new geopolitical visions. Yet geopolitical theorist Nicholas John Spykman predicted that there would be a rise in China that could lead to a change of power in the area and affect America if it does not develop a partnership with Japan.

America has long worked to geopolitically encircle China in the south, east, and west through various forms of partnership with Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and, in part, Central Asia. It used to do this in the name of fighting global terrorism, and now under the pretext of democracy.

The most important challenge facing the United States now is to halt China’s development so that China’s development presents itself as a serious problem for the entire democratic world.

China has never hidden that the differences between it and the US are deep and that its system is different. The Communist Party of China did not bother America or the EU until China became successful in science and technology - and innovation.

There are many examples of America, the EU and the UK using double standards towards China, and when scientists Jeffrey Sachs and Peter Nolan ask that China be talked about based on China's actual behavior and the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, they are accused of being "mercenaries". China. The US administration knows better than anyone that there is no genocide in Xinjiang. Apple has found that there is no forced labor in the facilities where its products are assembled and the World Bank has dismissed as false allegations that the skills and learning institutions associated with the Bank are de facto prisons. Fact-finding is not in Washington’s economic and geostrategic interest. Similar to the case of Iraq and Syria.

President Biden's recent message to the West about the great return of the United States to the transatlantic partnership and NATO and all his other concerns for global trade and supply chain stability can be done if we look from Europe, but for this utopia that all countries in the world must be " one in America ”it is necessary to gain allies. Instead of leading international relations in the direction of multilateralism, America is returning them to a space of geopolitics that can bring neither stability nor new development nor achieve the climate and goals of global public health but only new conflicts.

Article 60 of the G-7 meeting's communiqué, which without China and Russia looked like it had been extracted from the Museum of Economic Powers of the last century, emphasized "the importance of maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific, inclusive and based on the rule of law." China unlike the old ones economic forces did not enter the phase of decline of its economic power even during the pandemic. The only one has GDP growth and perhaps could give them some advice on managing development and strengthening stability in the Indo-Pacific if they invited it.

All the communications, draft strategies and guidelines aimed at strengthening the Western presence in that part of the world can do nothing to contribute to stability in the Indo-Pacific if they are not implemented together with China.

It now seems that the EU will not allow Washington to harness it against China. The European Union is currently working on its own strategy for the Indo-Pacific, which should be completed by September this year, and this cooperation with China has its place. Croatia is also involved in formulating this strategic document.

Brussels' goals are not geopolitical, there is little concern about "strategic focus", but the Council concludes that the EU's strategy is to "contribute to regional stability, security, prosperity and sustainable development, at a time of growing challenges and tensions in the region."
Again, it is difficult to put your hand in the fire, for example for France which has geopolitical ambitions and experiences of how it will behave in that area in the future. As part of the joint exercise, it sent an amphibious assault ship and a frigate to the "presence operation" in the South China Sea, to which China claims almost all, but also Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. And here we have double standards: when Chinese ships patrol, they are "provocations", when the Americans do it, they are "joint exercises".

The German frigate Bayern will be in the Indo-Pacific from August 2021 to February 2022, but the frigate will also visit the port of Shanghai before entering the South China Sea as proof that its Indo-Pacific policies are based on respect for and inclusion of China.
On the other hand, with the departure of Chancellor Merkel, Germany will also enter the process of reviewing relations with China, which is its largest single trade partner.

The UK government has not yet presented a stand-alone "Indo-Pacific Strategy", but discussions are under way to define its new role in Indo-Pacific trade, supply chain diversification, mechanisms to strengthen a rules-based international order and defense security.

Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, said upon arriving at the G-7 when it comes to China, no one wants a new Cold War. Britain is a rational country. Shortly before Biden's arrival, her export minister told the House of Lords that the country had no alternative but to improve and deepen relations with China.

The political leaders of America and NATO should stop spending their energy on rebuilding the world as it was before China’s rise because the fact is that the US cannot keep China’s rise nor can China replace the US.

The power of America’s economic and political control over the world is weakening, but not because of China. I mean, the world would change without China. The spirit of world history is a force that is transforming international relations. Each force has its ups and downs. It is not a military law, it is a historical law.

The long period of American supremacy, which sometimes had destructive features, and sometimes order and peace reigned, is no longer in the interest of the modern world. Historical change is underestimated in America and its strategies, and the point is that to change the world for the better, America must first change, not the Indo-Pacific.

Tagovi: China, chinese diplomacy, american diplomacy, Indo-Pacific region, Apple, World Bank
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