Thread: U.S. base makes Chinese nervous

FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN

U.S. base makes Chinese nervous

Government paper claims American facility targets Russian, Iran, others

Posted: October 03, 2009
12:50 am Eastern
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Manas base (U.S. Air Force Photo)

China is becoming concerned by the increased presence of the United States in Afghanistan and is complaining about the U.S. lease renewal at the Manas Air Base in neighboring Kyrgyzstan, suggesting that these activities are part of an overall containment effort against China, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

The complaint comes at the same time Chinese officials have expressed alarm over what they view as a growing alliance between the U.S. and India, which they perceive as designed to alter the Asian strategic balance in what Beijing always has regarded as its sphere of influence.

According to security analysts, the Chinese perceive the recent efforts by the U.S. in Central and South Asia as intended to force the Chinese to move troops away from the East where Beijing thinks the U.S. wants to increase its presence.

While this could lessen pressure somewhat on Taiwan, the analysts add that it forces Beijing to move more troops to the west where it also is encountering increased unrest with its Muslim Uighurs in its province of Xinjiang.

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The Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, a Chinese government-owned newspaper, claims the U.S. was seeking to “achieve its blockade of Russia in the north, deterrence of China in the east, suppression of Iran in the south, control of petroleum energy resources, anti-terror, and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, firmly occupy Afghanistan politically, resources-wise, and militarily and gradually control Central Asia comprehensively and then proceed to control the Eurasian continent and serve the protection of its world hegemony."

Ta Kung Pao, like other official government newspapers, is closely associated with the Communist Party of China, Beijing's supreme political authority, with control over all state apparatuses as well as the legislative process.

In commenting on the recent renewal of the lease at Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan just outside of the capital, Bishkek, Ta Kung Pao regarded continued U.S. presence there as a military threat.

"The deployment of a modern military force toward China's weakest western region enables U.S. military power to point straight at our northwestern borders for the first time against the Cold War, contain the momentum of China's power from pressing onward from the eastern region into the East Pacific, form a situation that allows the cutoff at any time of the energy lifeline in the Central Asian region on which China depends most, and also turn China's original great strategic rear into a new strategic front," Ta Kung Pao said. "Therefore, it can be said that Manas poses a direct military threat to our Xinjiang and western region."

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Gotta love the Chinese. They are upset that we have friends in India, and are in Afghanistan, while we can't say a word about their mucking around in our back yard, closer relations with Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba--and perhaps snugging up to Bolivia as well. No we can't say a word since we still need them to buy our debt obligations and not dump the ones the own. I was always assuming that their attack would be financial, but apparently it is how to "win friends and influence people" Chinese-style, by commiserating with countries that see the US as an imperial behemoth that is ready to take over the world. Meanwhile, they are already doing that with little notice by the American people, and no vocal notice by our government.