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For China’s sake, and that of its neighbors, one hopes they stick to the free-market plan.
It is getting tough in its territorial disputes with Japan in the East China Sea; it is becoming assertive in the South China Sea with its neighbors, also over disputed islands; it put its own stealth fighter on display during the US defense secretary’s visit to China; it is sending its first aircraft carrier out to sea for trials, indicating the possibility of establishing naval bases in the Indian Ocean.
So the key issue for China, its neighbors, the US, and rest of the world is not how many aircraft carriers, missiles, submarines, and next-generation fighters China may produce and deploy in the coming years and decades.
China’s rise is a fact; the enduring peacefulness of that rise must be a priority for China, its neighbors, the West, and, most importantly, the US.
We will need the solidarity of our neighbors, and of freedom-loving peoples around the world, to assure that our democratic dreams are realized in peace.
We defy those who seek to corrupt our democracy, but we stand with the hand of friendship extended to all of our neighbors, including Russia.
Having unsettled many of his neighbors, not just the Americans, his upcoming visit to Vietnam, and his prime minister Li Keqiang’s visit to South Korea, are of a piece with his dinner-hour diplomacy with Ma.
And Syria’s neighbors are struggling to cope with the conflict’s spillover.
However, only 26% of the funds needed to support Syria’s neighbors have been pledged, resulting in a patchwork of short-term aid.
Iraq’s prospects for emerging as a successful country at peace with itself and its neighbors also would be much improved.
This is why additional measures are called for to improve the prospects for political change that brings about an Iranian government prepared to live in peace with its own people and its neighbors.
It also has obligations to its neighbors, to the world community (not to support terrorism, for example), and to its citizens.
It also raised serious questions about the direction of the highly fraught relationship between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
There is no opting out of the global challenges that we face; there is no chance of addressing them without our neighbors.
As a result, two compelling questions have arisen: Why do China’s neighbors choose to neglect its interests?
But Myanmar and the other Mekong River countries are supposed to be the country’s “good neighbors,” and are completely within reach of Chinese power, so public anger over threats to the country’s interests in these places is intense.
The Myitsone and Mekong episodes highlight China’s suddenly edgy relations with its southern neighbors.
Indeed, China’s neighbors will not be reliably good to Chinese interests unless and until China begins to provide essential public goods – not just commerce, but also full-fledged regional governance based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and regional economic growth.
The most unattractive versions of 1930’s regionalism came from Germany and Japan, and represented nothing less than a practical extension of their power over vulnerable neighbors, which were forced into trade and financial dependence on the basis of Germany’s Grosswirtschaftsraum or its Japanese equivalent, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
In the first case, Dmitri Borodin, the minister counselor at the Russian embassy in The Hague, was arrested late one night in October of last year, after neighbors alerted the Dutch police that Borodin, allegedly in a drunken state, was beating his two small children.
To his mind, the country with more neighbors than any other country on the continent should not throw its weight around.
It would not simply dump its national problems on its smaller neighbors, because it would recognize that their security is synonymous with its own.
As China’s neighbors well know, the country’s quest for regional dominance could be damaging – and even dangerous.
Moving Lombard Street to the Boulevard Haussmann could be more effective than any of the other attempts we English have made to harm our nearest neighbors over the centuries.
Germany and some of the other northern European countries, demonstrating an unseemly lack of European solidarity, have declared that they should not be asked to pick up the bill for their profligate southern neighbors.
If Germany and the other northern European countries continue to insist on pursuing current policies, they, together with their southern neighbors, will wind up paying a high price.
In essence, it would have to accept a rules-based system for its relations with its two neighbors, something of which China’s government has been wary.
Western sanctions instead paved the way for investments in Myanmar by those with less concern about human rights violations – first by ASEAN neighbors in hotels and other sectors, and more recently by China and India, which are vying for projects and influence in the strategic energy sector.
But regional neighbors find it hard to criticize one another’s policies and demand course corrections.
That is all the more true for the emerging economies, which have become highly dependent on their neighbors.
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