Goodbye US, Hello China

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/FK04Ae03.html


"BANGKOK - A curious thing: clicking around websites of US political
parties and the State Department reveals nothing on foreign policy. In
the long-term game of geopolitical chess being played on the Southeast
Asian board, rising stars China and India may well gain the upper hand
if the new US president fails to take a longer view beyond Iraq and
terrorism.

Politicians and State Department officers wax lyrical about pressing
short-term challenges presented by Iraq and terrorism. Yet this myopia
may see US, and Western, influence atrophy in Asia, where seismic
geopolitical changes are taking place, against a background of rising
economic might, with further-reaching, broader and deeper implications
than Iraq and terrorism.

Of course states conduct much foreign policy quietly, out of sight in
the diplomatic shadows. But that is no reason for the absence of a
broad outline of policy aims, even what foreign policy is and why it is important - surely something a largely insular US public needs to
understand?

US public preoccupation with Iraq and terrorism has intensified
obsession with the daily news sound bite, at the expense of
well-crafted, farsighted strategy. Meanwhile in Asia a rising, brash,
confident China is flexing its diplomatic muscle, wooing states around
the region."

when they questioned American guests (Democrates or Republicans, Kerry or Bush aides) : China is the first contributor of the US debt on the bond market.

George sold the U.S. soul and future to China to fund his madness

thanks for the article

as one empire fades to black, another rises