蜡笔小新的最后一集:China must learn to project power

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China must learn to project power

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2011-3-16 08:53
China sends a rescue team to help Japan in the wake of deadly earthquake and tsunami.


By Frank Ching


Quietly, almost imperceptibly, China’s global influence has increased vastly in recent years while the United States observed uneasily from the sidelines.


Now, however, Beijing’s external reach is such that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sounded the alarm bells, warning that Washington is losing the contest.


“We are in a competition for influence with China,” she told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while appealing against cuts to the State Department’s budget.


“We are in an information war, and we are losing that war,” she said. Both the BBC and the Voice of America are halting Mandarin broadcasts while China has stepped up its international broadcasting.


“We are missing in action,” Clinton said.


The crisis in Libya provides an indication of China’s gigantic footprint in Africa. The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced over the weekend that 35,860 Chinese nationals have been successfully evacuated from Libya. Many of them worked in the oil, rail telecommunications and construction industries.


What other country would have that many nationals working in this North African country? And Libya is far from being the most important country in Africa.


Moreover, for the first time, China deployed military assets when carrying out the rescue. Its 4,000-ton missile frigate, the Xuzhou, which was on an anti-piracy mission off Somalia, transited the Suez Canal to arrive off Libya. Four military transport planes were also deployed, the first such deployment in an evacuation.


To be sure, other countries, such as India, Germany and the Netherlands, also evacuated their nationals from Libya, but on a much smaller scale. China is very much a newcomer, and yet it is carrying out its activities with aplomb.


The Chinese also gained much goodwill in assisting in the evacuation of other foreign nationals, including 41 citizens of Italy, Malta, Croatia, Vietnam and the Philippines.


Another indication of China’s new role in the world is its reaction to the New Zealand earthquake. It quickly sent a rescue team to New Zealand in the wake of the earthquake there.


In addition, at New Zealand’s request, it sent a team of specialists to help identify the bodies of Christchurch earthquake victims through comparing distinguishing features, DNA samples and other data.


Whereas last year, after the earthquake in Haiti, China was criticized for only being concerned with locating its own nationals, this time there was no such criticism.


China, it seems, is behaving like a model major power, willing to help when help is needed. Very often, it takes the United States as a model.


Last month, China amended its Criminal Law to make it a crime to bribe non-Chinese government officials and officials of international public organizations, the first time Chinese law has criminalized bribery of non-Chinese officials.


This seemed to have been patterned on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of the United States, which was passed in 1977.


And China has just adopted its own “Cifius” regulations, to determine if foreign investments affect its national security. This came after several proposed Chinese investments were rejected by foreign governments on the ground that the investments affected national security.


The name “Cifius” comes from Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-agency group.


Increasingly, it seems, China is willing to assume greater responsibility for world affairs, whether it be earthquake rescue or evacuation from political hot spots.


Moreover, as the amendment to the criminal law and the recent adoption of Cifius show, China is prepared to learn and play by the rules of the game.


But although imitation is the highest form of flattery, the United States is concerned that China, while growing increasingly powerful economically and influential diplomatically, its intentions are not transparent.


Certainly, as China’s economic interests spread around the world, it will find it necessary to find ways of protecting these interests as well as the safety of its nationals. That is to say, it will have to learn to project power.


That is not a problem. The problem is that because China is not a democracy, the rest of the world cannot be sure how Beijing intends to use its new-found power. And countries, from Japan to South Korea, from Indonesia to Vietnam, are finding it necessary to hedge and to ask the United States to remain in the region so that it can act as a balance against China, just as Washington, with its dwindling resources, is finding this an increasingly onerous job.

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