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发帖数: 38600 | 1 The Ultimate Irony: Is China the 'America' of Asia?
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-ultimate-irony-china-th
Beijing’s claims in Asia look extravagant, however, they are as valid as
those made by the United States against Mexico and Great Britain in the mid-
19th century. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 2 What should the United States do about East Asia’s territorial disputes?
Help ensure that “the broad Pacific Ocean is vast enough to embrace both
China and the United States,” as President Xi Jinping recently told U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry. Negotiations are mandatory where a major
power is emerging which, understandably, sees no reason to blithely accept
past international strictures agreed to by others. And talking often works,
even with Beijing. Of twenty-three previous border disputes involving the
PRC, seventeen were settled peacefully.
Even when negotiations fail, there usually is no need for the United States
to go to war. In most of East Asia’s territorial controversies, America’s
interests are peripheral and Washington should take a back seat role. Indeed
, the administration should look back a couple centuries at how the
superpower of the age handled the truculent new republic whose people were
prepared to fight. London settled. America’s most important interest today,
like Britain’s then, is keeping the peace rather than starting a war. |
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