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| After Osama, China fears the next target |
| 2011-05-09 |
| Although relieved with bin Laden's death, many Chinese are scared where Washington will focus its attention next. The United States' most vilified terrorist foe has been dead only a week but China is already haunted by the phantom of the next big US enemy. Almost simultaneously with the spread of the news of Osama bin Laden's death in a covert US operation in Pakistan, Chinese analysts had begun the guessing game of where Washington will focus its attention next. "Why didn't they catch him alive?" speculated military affairs analyst Guo Xuan. "Because he was no longer needed as an excuse for Washington to take the anti-terror war outside of the US borders. It is because of bin Laden that the US were allowed to increase their strategic presence in many places around the world as never before. But Libya and NATO's attack there have changed the game. They (the US) no longer need bin Laden to assert their authority." Even before bin Laden's death, Beijing had expressed concern that the US strategists are diverting their attention from the war on terror to containing the rise of China and other emerging economies. A long article on Libya stalemate published by the editor of Contemporary International Relations magazine, Lin Limin, argued that the US has been unwilling to take the lead role in the Libya conflict because it has "finally woken up to the fact that its main reason to worry are the emerging countries. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Lest we fergit, the photo of OSAMA'S SIMILARLY DECEASED CONFIDANTE/PROTEGE' ABU MUSAB ZARQHAWI is the same photo used on the MSM-Net for the founder of the pro-Islamist Uighur movement in Xinjiang, China [West China] two years after ZARQHAWI = the RB's "ZARK/ZARKEY" was supposedly killed by US airstrike back in 2006 in Iraq??? On a separate note, * MARIANAS VARIETY GUAM aka MVGUAM > 2014 TO BE SCRAPPED. 2014 maxima for US Marines to be reloc from Okinawa pushed back to 2019??? * SAME > [USMC] AIR STATION MAY REMAIN AT FUTENMA. ABOVE ARTICS read: > THREAT OF [violent?]DPRK = NORTH KOREA COLLAPSE, due to POOR ECON + NATIONAL STARVATION wid risk of unilateral DPRK "War Option" agz US-ROK-JAPAN, even DPRK milstrike agz China. > RISING CHINA'S DESIRE for "SOLE" OR CHIN-CONTROLLED/DOMINATED REGIONAL AIR-SEA PORTS FOR THE PLA, vee Japan-Okinawa-Taiwan. > RADIATION-LED ENVIRON = ECON WEAKENING, COLLAPSE? LT ABANDONMENT? OF JAPAN, in favor of China??? > POST-OSAMA ISLAMIST THREAT [post-2012 = Nuclear?] TO ASIA = EAST ASIA, to include WESTPAC + SE ASIA. NE ASIA as a whole is in a fickle state right now, wid "PERFECT STORM" OG GEOPOL, MANIFEST DESTINY, + GLOBAL WARMING-CLIMATE CHANGE changes. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-09 21:27 |
| #1 yeah, I beat they're quaking in fear. Who wrote this? Axelrod? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-05-09 19:32 |