{"id":44165,"date":"2019-08-01T15:14:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/08\/01\/china-is-watching\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:42:47","slug":"china-is-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/editorial\/2019\/08\/01\/china-is-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"China is watching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot has been said about the Trump administration\u2019s approach to international relations. Few things have been more divisive among members of Congress, the media or even U.S. allies than America First rhetoric, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/05\/23\/senates-pentagon-budget-bill-would-obstruct-trump-from-leaving-nato\/\" target=\"_blank\">NATO lashings<\/a>, or withdrawals from pivotal agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/nuclear-arsenal\/2019\/02\/06\/russia-bids-farewell-to-inf-treaty-with-fresh-nuclear-development-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\">INF Treaty <\/a>or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/06\/24\/trump-levels-sanctions-against-iran-with-a-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iran deal<\/a>, to name only a few. Everyone has an opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there is a tendency to think that such actions, and such reactions, happen in a box; that the world beyond our closest allies are just not paying terribly close attention. Certainly, they track shifts in policy to know how it might affect them, but are they picking through U.S. decision-making? Is it driving their own outlook? It\u2019s so easy to assume that what happens here, whether it be on Capitol Hill or at the White House, is observed but not scrutinized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So when our biggest adversary acknowledges in its own documents the very characteristics about American foreign policy today that are causing so much political friction at home, it can give you pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our Asia reporter, Mike Yeo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/asia-pacific\/2019\/07\/26\/china-us-in-pursuit-of-absolute-military-surpremecy\/\" target=_blank>reported about China\u2019s latest defense whitepaper<\/a>, released at the end of July. It warned of intensifying global competition as major powers readjust their security and military strategies to gain strategic advantage. A lot of the terminology rang familiar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe U.S. has adjusted its national security and defense strategies, and adopted unilateral policies,\u201d the report stated. \u201cIt has provoked and intensified competition among major countries, significantly increased its defense expenditure, pushed for additional capacity in nuclear, outer space, cyber and missile defense, and undermined global strategic stability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unilateral policies. Undermined global strategic stability. Provoked. Intensified. These are terms and phrases we\u2019ve heard before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Should we be surprised China is listening and watching? Of course not. But we should perhaps try to make sense of how our actions might be interpreted and how they influence the actions of others. Russia saw an advantage in Trump policies \u2014 a sense that he could divide NATO \u2014 and Moscow acted through election meddling. For China, current policies could be seen as provocation. Then what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider China\u2019s statements on U.S. actions in the region, which the report claims to be \u201cadding complexity to regional security.\u201d The deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in South Korea has \u201cseverely undermined the regional strategic balance and the strategic security interests of regional countries,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And consider in fact how the THAAD fiasco unfolded. President Donald Trump pressured South Korea to permit the system to be deployed \u2014 a system that Beijing claimed could be used by the United States for spying. China retaliated with unofficial sanctions, which were lifted only after South Korea accepted military constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did we see this coming? Did South Korea? It\u2019s unclear how seriously either country really considered China\u2019s response. And that\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of what China had to say in the report was rather satisfying. Consider its claim that \u201cthe U.S. is engaging in technological and institutional innovation in pursuit of absolute military superiority.\u201d You might call that tangible evidence of progress in the Pentagon\u2019s effort to gain some ground on China \u2014 a country that has dominated technological developments in recent years. It also does point to some examples where ties with the U.S. and regional players are strengthening \u2014 like in the case of Australia, which China recognizes is seeking a bigger role in security affairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously, global perception shouldn\u2019t define U.S. policy. But if we talk about how today\u2019s rhetoric might be interpreted by allies, which we do, we certainly should consider how it might be interpreted by adversaries. Clearly, it\u2019s their responsibility to read our actions and tactics and strategize accordingly \u2014 just as it is our responsibility to do the same of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> So if the U.S. is going to shift its approach on a dime in how it cooperates with allies (which we have indeed done) and if investments are going to stray notably from the formula of administrations past (which they have begun to do), then part of the calculus better be how our actions and words might be read by those countries that pose the biggest threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That, I would argue, we have not done as effectively as we should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, global perception shouldn\u2019t define U.S. policy. 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