Dissuading China

Posted by Matt in May 15th, 2008

What about stop trading with China? Wait, that would be inconvenient. Plus it would lower my standard of living.

Wouldn’t war and death lower your standard of living even more?

From the article:

The US would like to prevent China from developing certain offensive military capabilities. A dissuasion strategy has its charms, but it lacks a political context and can be very expensive.

Commentary by Peter Buxbaum in Washington, DC for ISN Security Watch (15/05/08)

Of all the world’s actors, the US security establishment is perhaps most concerned with China as a future rival. Each year the Pentagon submits to Congress an annual report addressing the military power of the People’s Republic of China.

This year’s report warned that “the pace and scope of China’s military transformation have increased in recent years, fueled by acquisition of advanced foreign weapons, continued high rates of investment in its domestic defense and science and technology industries, and far reaching organizational and doctrinal reforms of the armed forces. China’s expanding and improving military capabilities are changing East Asian military balances.”

Another significant strategic document, the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, released in 2006, pinpointed China as having “the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States and field disruptive technologies that could over time offset traditional US military advantages absent US countermeasures.”

The ‘pre-deterrent’

But what countermeasures should the US employ?

Map for Beijing, China

[Countries link to CIA Factbook. States link to Wikipedia.]

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