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China Review News: The US’s Foreign Policy Acts As an Arsonist

On May 25, 2014, China Review News published a commentary titled “‘The United States’ Crooked Mouth Has Not Been Able to Sing a Harmonious Tune in Asia.”

According to the article, the US foreign policy acts as an “arsonist” in that it directs the United States to set fires everywhere.” The US government’s “Return to Asia-Pacific” policy is a “selfish policy covered with a noble slogan.” The real purpose of the “Return to the Asia-Pacific” is for the U.S. to “consolidate its own hegemony in the increasingly prosperous Asia-Pacific region.” What the U.S. has been doing is “forming cliques and stirring up disagreements,” such as cooperating with Japan and the Philippines to curb a 3rd country (China).

Source: China Review News, May 25, 2014
http://hk.crntt.com/doc/1032/0/4/3/103204300.html?coluid=148&kindid=7550&docid=103204300&mdate=0525093040  

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Huanqiu: American Hegemony’s Biggest Threat to China is the Americanization of China

On May 26, 2014, Huanqiu published a commentary titled “Issues of China’s ‘De-Americanization.’” According to the article, American hegemony’s biggest threat to China is the Americanization of China. The purpose of “‘De-Americanization’ is to get rid of American centrism.” The trilogy of "De-Americanization" is to “let China be China, let Asia be Asia, and let the world be the world.”

"Let China be China" refers to the point that the "China Dream could be a nightmare for Americans," if China cannot handle well the environmental challenges posed by economic development. However, "if China can successfully achieve that, China will create a new civilization of sustainable development for human beings. China will then become a country that can lead the world." "This is what Obama failed to realize."

"Let Asia be Asia" is in response the dilemma that "Asian countries rely on China economically and rely on the U.S. for security issues." "This is why the U.S. is ‘returning to Asia.’ Under the banner of the TPP, the U.S. expects that Asian countries will rely on the U.S. for both economic and security matters." As a solution, "China’s Communist Party Chair, Xi Jinping, proposed at the 4th CICA Summit in Shanghai that ‘Asian people should, ultimately, handle Asian issues and the Asian people should ultimately safeguard Asia’s security.’"

"Let the world be the world" is the effort of China to "make the West the West and reduce universal values back to Western values." To achieve this, China has been working with Russia, the SCO, ASEAN, and the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to promote a "diversified world development model and democratic international relations." Specific efforts include "condemning Japan for challenging and undermining the post WWII international order," "internationalization of the Chinese currency," "the twenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road," and "the Silk Road Economic Belt."

Source: Huanqiu, May 26, 2014
http://opinion.huanqiu.com/opinion_world/2014-05/5005164.html

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China Youth Daily: Calmly Deal with U.S.’s New Assault in Cybersecurity

Shen Yi, a professor of international politics at Fudan University, wrote an opinion article about how to deal with the U.S.’s recent cyber espionage charge against five Chinese military officers. Shen offered three guidelines that China should take to respond to the U.S.’s new round of cybersecurity offensives against China: 

“First, China needs to stay calm, based on moderation and on an accurate judgment of its own national interests. It should comprehensively use a number of different strategies in response to the United States’ new offensives in cyber security. … China must be fully prepared on two sides. On the one hand, it must prepare enough short-term measures so that U.S. companies can pay clear, palpable, high-enough prices for Washington’s irresponsible actions. The goal is to let Washington actively come back to a dialogue to resolve the issue and to revoke these absurd [charges]. On the other hand, China cannot shake the strategic judgment and strategic direction. We must stick to our own path and not dance [in tune with] the U.S. strategic tempo.” 
“Second, from the perspective of China’s own national cybersecurity strategy, the United States’ surprise attack is both a challenge and more of an opportunity. … Today, the U.S. government’s move clearly and explicitly tells China the urgency of developing its own comprehensive national cybersecurity capabilities. … To deal with such threats in cyberspace, China must, under the framework of overall national security, promote the development of critical network security capabilities and cultivate a large number of network security enterprises with considerable potential. From mechanical design, strategic planning, and policy development, China should learn how to compete and cooperate with the United States in the realm of global cyberspace.”　　 

“Third, China must always be aware of its special nature as an emerging great power. Facing the pressure from the United States, China can neither cut off its contact with cyberspace, or replicate the strategy of the U.S. and thus fall into the typical security dilemma. … In the long run, in the transition of global cyberspace governance, China must put forward a strategic proposal on behalf of the emerging powers and developing countries.” 

Source: China Youth Daily, May 20, 2014 
http://news.youth.cn/gn/201405/t20140520_5228883.htm http://opinion.people.com.cn/n/2014/0520/c1003-25042706.html

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U.S. Cyber Crime Charges Enrage Beijing

In an angry response to the U.S. cyber-spying charges against members of a secretive Chinese military unit, China’s official media hurled back extensive counter-charges.
Cui Tiankai, China’s Ambassador to the United States, responded, "China is the victim of cyber-attacks. There have been massive U.S. originated cyber invasions and surveillance into Chinese government agencies, businesses, universities, and even individuals." "China has decided to suspend its activities with the China-U.S. Internet working group. The U.S. should immediately correct its mistake and withdraw from this so-called prosecution." [1]
One opinion article said, "In fact the U.S. is the most ‘qualified’ defendant. This also reminds the world’s countries that the Internet can no longer be dominated by American hegemony." "The U.S. is one of the few that control the main root server and secondary root servers of the Internet. It also exerts actual control over the allocation of domain names. Holding the global Internet infrastructure resources and core technologies, the U.S. was the first to build a cyber-warfare unit and to include ‘network-centric warfare’ as part of the nation’s ‘core capabilities.’ The U.S. set off an arms race in cyberspace and has its ears and eyes on cyber surveillance reaching almost every insignificant corner around the world. It has always been the hegemon in cyberspace. They are the thieves moving everywhere; they are the most brazen robbers." [2]
Another commentary criticized the U.S. government, "The U.S. government uses two excuses: the so-called separation of powers and that ‘the government cannot interfere with legislative and journalistic independence,’ in order to connive with Congress, the media, and business’s so it can constantly hype up the ‘Chinese hacker threat.’" [3]
One University scholar wrote an article on People’s Daily. "This outrageous act of the U.S. only proves its imperialist logic of ‘might is right’." "Today, the U.S. is not the only country that has advanced monitoring technologies. Countries that are able to detect attacks against their own network are everywhere. With the U.S. pressing charges against other country’s military officers without credible evidence, other countries will have a more reasonable basis to prosecute the chief of the U.S. National Security Agency and its superiors. As long as the U.S. does not stop breaching other countries’ cyber boundaries, it is not qualified to require other countries not to implement network defense or even counterattacks." [4]
Source: [1] Guangming Daily, May 22, 2014
http://news.gmw.cn/2014-05/22/content_11385205.htm
[2] People’s Daily, May 22, 2014
http://opinion.people.com.cn/n/2014/0522/c1003-25048271.html
[3] China.com, May 21, 2014
http://opinion.china.com.cn/opinion_96_99396.html
[4] People’s Daily, May 22, 2014
http://opinion.people.com.cn/n/2014/0522/c1003-25050385.html
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China News Agency: What Logic Gives the Americans the Courage of a Thief Crying Stop Thief”?

Zuo Xiaodong, Deputy Director of the China Information Security Institute, wrote a special article on Chinanews.com (China News Agency), in response to the U.S. Justice Department’s indictment of five Chinese military officers for economic espionage by hacking into the computers of U.S. companies involved in nuclear energy, steel manufacturing, and solar energy. People’s Daily also posted the article on its website. 

The article said, “On May 19, the U.S. Justice Department once again staged a thief crying ‘Stop thief’ farce. It indicted five Chinese military officers for cyber-espionage against U.S. companies. As the U.S. controls the global Internet-based resources and the core technology, it has a strong network advantage. The U.S. announced, in high-profile, the formation of cyber warfare forces; it set off a global race of the Internet military; it created the "shock web" virus; fired the first shot of attacks on civilian critical [network] infrastructure; spread network monitoring tentacles throughout the world; and, for a long time, has been hacking Huawei and other Chinese companies. Now [the U.S.] instead [of being the aggressor] has disguised itself as a victim of cyber-attacks and even used national laws to prosecute the armed forces of another sovereign state staff from thousands of miles away. It is really laughable. Since the United States has always been upholding its hegemony, however, this is really nothing new."
The article also said that, from the beginning, the U.S. refused to cooperate with the international community to set up Internet security rules. However, once the Americans were ready, they initiated the implementation of international rules to restrict others in the name of peace. “The fundamental purpose of the Americans is, through hyping the target country as a network threat, to develop an adverse international environment of public opinion for the target country so as to suppress the other country’s IT capacity for independent innovation.” 

Source: Chinanews.com, May 20, 2014 

http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2014/05-20/6192767.shtml http://opinion.people.com.cn/n/2014/0520/c1003-25042705.html

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People’s Daily: The U.S. Showcase of Aircraft Carrier Is a Scare Tactic

People’s Daily Online wrote an article about the U.S.’ invitation to PLA’s Chief of General Staff Fang Fenghui to visit the aircraft carrier "Ronald Reagan" and the Littoral Combat Ship "Colorado" and to tour the North Carolina Army base during his coming visit to the United States. China’s state media expresses the belief that the U.S. has the intention of scaring China with its advanced weapons. A Beijing’s military expert Yin Zhuo said that the arrangement of Fang’s visit to the U.S. advanced battleships is intended to remind China that it should not overestimate China’s own strength and underestimate that of the U.S. Yuan Zongze, Deputy Director of the China Institute of International Studies, expressed his opinion that Sino-U.S. military relations still face obstacles and China should respond with a two-sided policy, namely, to continue the communications and, at the same time, not to give up the fight.

Source: People’s Daily Online, May 14, 2014 
http://military.people.com.cn/n/2014/0514/c1011-25016299.html
http://military.people.com.cn/n/2014/0515/c1011-25020179.html
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Global Times: The United States Jumped to the Front in the Sino-Philippine Dispute

Huanqiu (Global Times) published a commentary discussing the intention of Obama’s Asian trip. A brief summary of the commentary follows: 

Obama arranged for the first stop in his four-country trip to Asia to be in Japan and the final stop in the Philippines. He had special motives for this trip: Both countries have conflicts with China on maritime issues. In recent years they have increasingly taken a hardline stance against China in their China policy, frequently creating trouble and provoking China. This has in large part catered to the needs of U.S. strategy. Obama’s trip seems to fulfill the purpose of both of them. It acts as a reward for their actions as well as an encouragement. 
In the East China Sea and on the Diaoyu Islands issue, the United States is obviously partial to Japan. On the South China Sea issue, the United States’ involvement is getting deeper by the day, although it claims not to hold any position. Especially in the Sino-Philippine controversy, if there was only America’s "shadow" in the past, then clearly the United States’ "Black Hand" is intervening right now. The Philippines dares to challenge the Chinese brazenly; the United States factor behind [their action] cannot be "denied." 
On the "war front" of geopolitical gaming and rule-making between China and the Philippines surrounding the South China Sea, the United States stance coincides with that of the Philippines. Both countries rely on each other, seeking to win over other countries to form "the South China Sea united front" to contain China. Especially this time when the United States and the Philippines have signed a 10-year agreement to strengthen defense cooperation, the fact that both countries share a common "imaginary" enemy has become self-evident. 

Source: Huanqiu (Global Times), April 29, 2014 
http://opinion.huanqiu.com/opinion_world/2014-04/4982762.html http://world.people.com.cn/n/2014/0429/c1002-24956646.html

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Just Who is Afraid of the “China’s Dream” of a Powerful Nation?

Below is a brief summary of a People’s Daily commentary discussing who is afraid of "China’s Dream" of a powerful nation: 

With the rapid development of China’s economy, the overall increase in its national strength, and the significant increase in its international status, today we have the capital and the ability to talk about the "China Dream." The essence of the "China Dream" is national prosperity, a strong army, national rejuvenation, and a happy people. … However, some in the international community have ulterior motives and are also spreading the "China threat theory. 
At the top of the list is the United States. China’s rapid development has made the United States feel extremely uncomfortable. For a long time, the United States has had, as its policy, the comprehensive suppression of China as a political opponent. The U.S. not only has gone to war with China twice; its policy to curb China has never changed in all successive governments. Strategically, the U.S. forms a wide range of alliances; with its full energy, it encourages and supports the activities of the anti-China forces and actively intervenes in a number of China-related matters. 
Second on the list is Japan. Currently, Japan regards containing the rise of China as a symbol of its national rise and rejuvenation. 
The third is the ASEAN and the neighboring countries. In early April, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel gathered the ASEAN defense ministers in Hawaii for the first time. The U.S. move had the purpose of strengthening the U.S. military presence in the ASEAN region. At the same time, it helped to deepen the ASEAN countries’ psychological wariness of China, so that the U.S. could bind the ASEAN countries together to deal with challenges from the rise of China. 
Source: People’s Daily, April 22, 2014 
http://military.people.com.cn/n/2014/0422/c1011-24926591.html
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