Ivan Eland
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute
The United States Should Give China Breathing Room to Rise Peacefully
Posted:
11/11/2014
Xi Jinping, China's leader, has recently spoken of a "new type of great power relations" with the United States. This is diplomatic speak for China wanting its own sphere of influence in East Asia--much as other great powers have had a security buffer in the past. The American foreign policy elite self-servingly dismiss this Chinese desire as "so 19th century;" of course, they would howl if any country tried to encroach on the U.S. spheres of influence Europe (why the United States is very nervous about Russian activities in Ukraine) and Latin America (traditionally enforced vigorously with the Monroe Doctrine).http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/the-united-states-should_b_6140680.html Ivan Eland
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