Despite the
U.S. rhetoric depicting a recent flyover by two U.S. bombers near
Chinese islands in the South China Sea as unintended, it is clear to
all that the incident was as intended as every other maneuver by
Washington aimed at sustaining its global hegemony.
In the past
several months, the United States has escalated tension in the area
by sending warships and military planes on patrol missions there,
under the pretext of safeguarding the freedom of navigation.
As shown by
some cases, the U.S. military appears to have developed a liking for
sailing near or flying over Chinese islands in the South China Sea.
Perhaps the
United States, after citing the freedom of navigation as an excuse
for so long, is getting tired of using the term to justify such
actions. For the two B-52 bombers' incursion, it has come up with a
new explanation: The aircraft may have strayed off course due to bad
weather.
However,
according to military experts, the odds are low that a strategic
bomber like the B-52 has to change route simply because of weather
conditions.
In fact, the
South China Sea is not the only area in which the United States has
rolled out harmful measures in contradiction to its pledge to work
with China to build a new type of major-country relations between the
two countries.
On Dec. 16,
President Barack Obama's administration authorized a 1.83-
billion-U.S.-dollar arms sale package to Taiwan, at a time when
relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have reached an
unprecedented level since 1949, following the historic cross-Strait
leaders' meeting in Singapore last month.
Washington
bases its arms sales to Taiwan on the fallacy of protecting the
island from the so-called military threat from the mainland. But it
deliberately ignores China's resolve to seek peaceful reunification
as well as China's promise to never use force against Taiwan as long
as the island does not announce independence or seek to split from
the mainland.
Since its
decision to pivot U.S. military and diplomatic resources to Asia,
Washington has made quite a number of moves in the Asia-Pacific
region. However, to the regret of many, a majority of these moves,
under the pretext of promoting the stability and prosperity of the
region, are actually aimed at sustaining U.S. supremacy.
China, which
has played a responsible role on the world stage, has always
maintained that the Pacific Ocean is big enough to accommodate both
China and the United States.
Multipolarization
is the trend of the times in international relations. Should
Washington cling to its outdated notion of hegemonism and seek to
undermine China's legitimate interests, it would not take long before
Washington found itself trapped in a quagmire of its own making.
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