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The Sino-American Security Dynamic:- Download the Full 2006 “US National Security Strategy” Here.
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posted Friday, 17 March 2006
If there is one sentence that sums up America's official stance on China, it must be this:
| “Our strategy seeks to encourage China to make the right strategic choices for its people, while we hedge against other possibilities.” US National Security Strategy, 2006 |
This sentence comes from the official “US National Security Strategy”, released earlier this month, and it can mean two different things depending on who you are and how you read it.
If you are an optimist it, it clearly means that America will continue to engage China on all fronts, rather than acting to isolate it. Thus helping China to rise peacefully, and to become a productive and integrated member of the international community, while, at the same time, showing that America is not being afraid to give China the occasional nudge should it overstep the boundaries.
| "As China becomes a global player, it must act as a responsible stakeholder that fulfills its obligations and works with the United States and others to advance the international system that has enabled its success:" US National Security Strategy, 2006 |
However, if you are a pessimist, this sentence clearly states one thing and one thing only: China must change, it must reform, and it must conform to OUR vision of how it should be, and, should China fail to comply, we will not hesitate to step in and contain it.
Of course, things are not always black and white, and nobody should ever take the work of a singe source for anything, so, for your reading pleasure, Angry Chinese blogger is happy to make the US 2006 “National Security Strategy” available on line so that readers may make up their own minds, and decide how they feel the future is likely to go for the worlds most powerful nation, and the worlds fastest rising nation.
Click to Download.
Although China is mentioned throughout the document, readers should pay particular attention to the following pages:
Page 26: Deals with China's role in 6 party talks
Page 31: Deals with China as a 'growth engine' and the China's Forex
Pages 46 and 47: Deal with the changes that China is undergoing and the reforms that the US sees as being important to ensuring that China's rise is peaceful and does not destabilize the region, and with China's military.
Now That you've read it
Feel free to comment.
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Additional sections of this report cover non China related issues including WMD, the threat of terrorism, and America's reaffirmation of 'no smoking gun' policy, under which it reserves these right to launch pre-emptive conventional or nuclear strikes against any hostile nation that it considers to be a threat to the US, or to be developing WMD capabilities that may one day pose a threat to the US.
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