US Needs to Stop Playing ‘Chicken’ With Beijing in South China Sea…(They Won’t…Need A War…)
SputnikNews.com
03.09.2016
Before threatening China with the use of armed force in the South China Sea, US policymakers should ask themselves whether American dominance in Asia is so important as to justify the immense cost of a direct conflict with Beijing, Australian academic Hugh White notes.
On the eve of his bilateral summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, US President Barack Obama criticized Beijing for what he called “muscle-flexing” in the South China Sea in an interview with CNN.
“Where we see them [Beijing] violating international rules and norms, as we have seen in some cases in the South China Sea or in some of their behavior when it comes to economic policy, we’ve been very firm. And we’ve indicated to them that there will be consequences,” Obama told the media outlet.
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