US debate about China Rising

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US debate about China Rising??????????

• By Vincent Chan

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Presentation Outline

• Debate about China Rising
• Economic-Related
• 1. Chinas economic invasion
• 2. Chinas intention to replace the US as a
  leading power in Asia region
• Military- Related
• 1. Historical perspective on China Rising
• 2. Chinas military buildup
• 3. Chinas nuclear proliferation.
• . Conclusions

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Presentation Outline

• Debate about China Rising
• Economic-Related
• 1. Chinas economic invasion
• 2. Chinas intention to replace the US as a
  leading power in Asia region
• Military- Related
• 1. Historical perspective on China Rising
• 2. Chinas military buildup
• 3. Chinas nuclear proliferation.
• . Conclusions

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Debate about China Rising Economic-Related

• China economically expand outward for earning
  more money or resources.
• In the eyes of some American, is economic
  invasion, especially a US company is involved.
• Debates
• CNOOC try to acquire Unocal Corporation

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Debate about China Rising Economic-Related

• Debate 1CNOOC try to acquire Unocal Corporation
• A debate between two factions in US Congress
• One fraction argued
• threatened U.S. access to oil supplies.
• given the Chinese "monitoring capabilities" for
  U.S. military installations.
• Another fraction argued
• "monitoring capabilities" was based on inaccurate
  information.
• most of Unocal's exploitation activities were no
  longer located in the U.S.
• Beijing allowed American oil companies to invest
  in China.

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Debate about China Rising Economic-Related

• Former U.S. President Clinton said that CNOOC
  should have been able to buy Unocal
• A US journalist had given an explanation of what
  CNOOC exactly want from the US oil company.
• management expertise rather than its physical
  assets.
• A new place to invest
• Americans need not to feel nervous about.

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Debate about China Rising Economic-Related

• A trend that China has been replacing the United
  States as the most important market for all of
  East Asia
• Some US politicians considered this trend as
  China was using its economic clout to buy
  alliances in Southeast Asia.
• A Chinese newspaper agreed
• China's influence is increasing in the region
• Definitely not China's policy to exclude the
  United States.

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Debate about China Rising Economic-Related

• The economic exclusion of the United States in
  East Asia is only the economic-driven process.
• Chinese geographical advantage and
• Cheap massive labor pool

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Presentation Outline

• Debate about China Rising
• Economic-Related
• 1. Chinas economic invasion
• 2. Chinas intention to replace the US as a
  leading power in Asia region
• Military- Related
• 1. Historical perspective on China Rising
• 2. Chinas military buildup
• 3. Chinas nuclear proliferation.
• . Conclusions

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Debate about China Rising Military-Related

• A former US military officer
• The rise of new powers was often disruptive
• Given two examples of disruptive rising power in
  the history.
• In the 1800s, Germany and its rivalry with Great
  Britain resulted in World War I.
• In the 1930s the rise of Japan resulted in World
  War II
• He suggested that
• bring China into the international system as a
  non-disruptive power
• it was a choice that up to China to choose
  between friend or enemy

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Debate about China Rising Military-Related

• A US scholar has different opinion about this
  historical fact.
• In the 1800s, Germany Rising
• Several great powers were crowded onto a small
  European continent.
• the United States peacefully rose to be a great
  power in a region far from other great powers.
• Choice of disruptive or not Made by the
  dominant power at the same time.
• Britain was the dominant naval power in the
  Western Hemisphere during the rise of the United
  States.
• Britain transform a potential conflict into a
  strategic partnership

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Debate about China Rising Military-Related

• Pentagon officer has raised doubts about the
  China intention of the build-up because
• no security threat could trouble China enough to
  prompt such a big military buildup.
• the buildup far surpassed anything that any of
  China's neighbors in Asia were doing or would be
  capable of doing.
• The US scholar has given an explanation
• The military buildup of China was due to the US
  suspicious military act.

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Debate about China Rising Military-Related

• some US politicians agreed that the China
  military buildup was partly due to the US
  military actions. But
• the Chinas military budget was unreasonably
  high.
• Between 2000 and 2005, China's defense spending
  had rise significantly and doubled to US 29.6
  billion.
• suspected that China had spent more than it
  announced.
• A China official has a disagreement about the
  claim that China is among largest military budget
  in the world.
• the defense budget of the United States in 2004
  was US 401.7 billion.
• China's defense expenditure (US 29.6 billion) of
  the year merely amounted to one-twentieth of that
  of the United States.

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Debate about China Rising Military-Related

• The former military officer expressed another
  worried about Chinas proliferation of nuclear
  weapons.
• US President Bush agreed to lift a US ban on the
  sale of nuclear technology to India.
• the proposed U.S. sale appears to violate at
  least the spirit of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
  Treaty (NPT).

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Presentation Outline

• . Debate about China Rising
• Economic-Related
• 1. Chinas economic invasion
• 2. Chinas intention to replace the US as a
  leading power in Asia region
• Military- Related
• 1. Historical perspective on China Rising
• 2. Chinas military buildup
• 3. Chinas nuclear proliferation.
• . Conclusions

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Conclusions

• It is needless to argue that China is rising.
• The challenge for China is to rise in an
  international manner.
• These rules, which are mostly and unilaterally
  set by Western power, make the challenge even
  greater for China.

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Conclusions

• Regarding to China military threat, it have been
  exaggerated. Chinese leaders or citizen want no
  more war.
• The United States should have to self evaluated
  before criticizing China or other countries.

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