超能继承者吧:China, America in competition of military inf...

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China, America in competition of military influence in Southeast Asia

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) meets with his Malaysian counterpart Najib Tun Razak in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 28, 2011.

The evidence is building to show Beijing and Washington have been strengthened the efforts to reinforce the presence in the Southeast Asia.

In the four-day official visits last week, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reached agreements with Malaysian and Indonesian leaders to strengthen bilateral defense ties. In Beijing, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission Guo Boxiong and the visiting Thai Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan vowed to deepen military cooperation.

Washington is far unwilling to fall behind in the clout completion with Beijing.

“When future historians look back at this era, I am convinced that the rise of Asia will be noted as the central geo-strategic fact of our time,” Michèle Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, told a packed room of policy experts at Johns Hopkins University’s “Rethinking Seminar” here.

U.S. officials “think our posture in Northeast Asia is about right,” Flournoy said, but there’s need to expand efforts in Southeast Asia. Rather than building more bases, she said, the U.S. military is focused on working more closely in military-to-military relationships to include combined training, joint patrols, and shared medical and civil engineering missions.

Southeast Asia is abound with natural resources and adjoins to the busiest sea lane in the world which bears the crucial transportation of oil heading to Asian countries. Both China and America keep robust trade links with Southeast Asian countries, but neither of them is able to become major arms supplier.

Arms sales have been viewed as one of leverages to influence the area in the eye of China and America. However, concerning China’s military buildup and its uncompromising stance in the South China Sea disputes, countries in this region restrain from engaging with Beijing too deep. Hence China’s arms sales remain in limited scale. Fund shortage restricts governments’ buying ability to American weapons. Under certain circumstances, Washington cuts arms supplies on request of military sanctions.

It’s sure to say Chinese military strength and consumption power of Southeast Asian countries will have salient rise in the next decade. It may prompt Southeast Asia to become big spender of American arms.

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