{"id":1883,"date":"2005-03-02T21:44:35","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T04:44:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-03-02T21:44:35","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T04:44:35","slug":"a-new-cold-war-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/02\/a-new-cold-war-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Cold War with China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinapost.com.tw\/editorial\/detail.asp?GRP=I&#038;id=59103\">China Post<\/a> perceives a new cold war with the United States:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A new Cold War is taking shape after last week&#8217;s U.S.-Japan <a href=\"http:\/\/english.www.gov.tw\/index.jsp?action=cna&#038;cnaid=7025\">joint statement<\/a> that China is their biggest security threat and that Taiwan is key to keep Beijing&#8217;s growing military might in check&#8230; It was the first time that the U.S. and Japan openly placed Taiwan under their defense umbrella. The joint statement represented the most significant change since 1996 to the 1960 U.S.-Japan Security Alliance. Just two days before that, U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/barry.php?articleid=3545\">Douglas Feith<\/a>, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/pub7858\/douglas_j_feith_barbara_starr\/national_defense_in_the_second_term.php\">Council on Foreign Relations<\/a> that China was one of the &#8216;four key concerns&#8217; of the U.S., the others being weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and failing states. While the U.S. would respect China&#8217;s aspiration to achieve national greatness, Feith said, this in turn would require Beijing to &#8216;forgo the threat or use of force to pursue unification.&#8217;<br \/>\nIn other words, China&#8217;s rise has to be in line with America&#8217;s &#8216;rules of the road.&#8217; If not, he warned, &#8216;respect for sovereignty&#8217; does not require the U.S. &#8216;to ignore the depredations of tyrannical regimes.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Douglas_Jay_Feith\">especially Feith<\/a>) are in a position to say so because our government has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chargepadilla.org\/\">respect<\/a> for the rule of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,1089158,00.html\">law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The China Post perceives a new cold war with the United States: &#8220;A new Cold War is taking shape after last week&#8217;s U.S.-Japan joint statement that China is their biggest security threat and that Taiwan is key to keep Beijing&#8217;s growing military might in check&#8230; It was the first time that the U.S. and Japan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}