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- Title
China: Growth Rates and Domestic Allies Concern American Security.
- Authors
Parker, Lauren
- Abstract
China emerges as a national security concern for America for several reasons. The Communist mindset prevalent in China reduces the potential for insurgencies or uprisings. It focuses on the good of a community as a whole, not on an individual. This reduces the potential for staging coups or funding rebel forces in China to covertly undermine the current regime. The spike in China's economy results in a "going global" mindset and free market economy. International businesses have relocated their headquarters and factories to China for cheap labor and mass exports. China's government annually buys American federal debt, creating interdependency between America's and China's economies. The growth of China's military capabilities creates unrest in international and regional countries. China remains secretive about their military strategies, but openly claims a peaceful military growth designed to protect their sea trade lanes and amplify their weapon systems. Through military exercises with foreign countries, China expands their far sea expeditions and prepares for operations combating American weapons and forces. China's domestic alliances have developed due to the American war on terrorism. Two key allies are North Korea and Russia. North Korea threatens America with continued nuclear tests, while providing China with enhanced nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon capabilities. However, the fragile regime in North Korea injures China's global influence and foreign strategy. Russia has partnered with China since the fall of the Soviet Union, supplying them with fighter planes and other weapon systems and a common enemy against the United States. However, the competition between the two countries prevents their complete compliance and hinders their diplomacies. In order for America to covertly undermine China's global power, they must reduce their economic interdependency with China and capitalize on the vulnerabilities of China's domestic allies, namely North Korea and Russia.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHINA; INTERNATIONAL relations; GROWTH rate; NATIONAL security; PEASANT uprisings; INTERNATIONAL economic relations; COMMUNIST countries
- Publication
Global Security Studies, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 2, p45
- ISSN
1944-222X
- Publication type
Article