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发帖数: 617 | 1 华盛顿邮报说， The Beijing government is trying to understand the shift,
tasking academic experts to review the initiatives and submit options on how
to respond.
“The U.S. is overreacting,” said Zhu Feng, an international relations
expert at Peking University who was asked to study Washington’s moves and
make recommendations. He said the government may feel bewildered by the
Obama initiatives.
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发帖数: 617 | 2 Some analysts said China’s response to the United States’ new Asia posture
is for the moment likely to be restrained. China is facing a leadership
change in 2012, they noted, and Beijing is unlikely to make any moves that
might upset the carefully choreographed transition.
The tougher language from the United States was expected by several analysts
, as Obama enters into reelection campaign mode and does not want to be
criticized by his Republican rivals for being “soft” on China.
Several analysts also said the U.S. pivot toward Asia is coming from a
position of weakness, not strength. With severe economic problems continuing
at home, and Europe struggling with projected low growth and the euro
crisis, the United States hopes to take advantage of Asia’s growing markets
and high growth rates.
“The unilateral U.S. maneuver to expand its influence in the region is
noticeably motivated by opening up new markets in the region for U.S. goods
and services so as to lower its domestic high jobless rates,” China’s
official Xinhua News Agency said in a stinging editorial Thursday. “
Moreover, Obama, whose job approval rating continues to slip, seems to be
staking his reelection on high-profile diplomatic ambitions in Asia Pacific,
as he is failing to bring America’s slack economy back to the path of
strong growth in his first term.”
Most Chinese analysts said Beijing accepts that the United States remains a
Pacific power, as Obama recently went out of his way to declare. China, the
analysts said, is a growing presence in the region, but not one yet ready to
compete with the United States.
“China . . . has neither the strength nor intention to vie with
the U.S. for dominance in Asia-Pacific affairs,” Yang Danzhi, with the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, wrote in a prominently displayed
commentary in the China Daily newspaper.
Another expert, Tao Wenzhao, a senior researcher with the Institute of
American Studies, agreed with that assessment. “China doesn’t have any
intention to compete with the U.S. for leadership,” Tao said. “China has a
long way to go to be compared with a superpower like the U.S.”
But, analysts here said, China expects to be taken seriously as a player in
the East Asian region. And the analysts feared that any U.S. moves seen as
provocative might only push a nervous China to take defensive measures.
“If the U.S. tries to be provocative . . . and treat China as a
rival, it will definitely trigger an arms race and put East Asia in a tight
spot,” said Sun Zhe, an international relations professor at Tsinghua
University. “This is what alarms me most.” |
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