{"id":6002,"date":"2019-06-27T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T22:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:58:51","slug":"beyond-balancing-alternative-us-grand-strategies-for-dealing-with-china-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/beyond-balancing-alternative-us-grand-strategies-for-dealing-with-china-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond \u2018balancing\u2019: alternative US grand strategies for dealing with China and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to start paying attention. The US\u2013China spat is doubling down. The hardline speeches given by Chinese\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1152730.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defence Minister Wei Fenghe<\/a>\u00a0and then acting US\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iiss.org\/-\/media\/files\/shangri-la-dialogue\/2019\/speeches\/plenary-1--patrick-shanahan-acting-secretary-of-defense-united-states-transcript.ashx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan<\/a>\u00a0at the recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iiss.org\/events\/shangri-la-dialogue\/shangri-la-dialogue-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shangri-La Dialogue<\/a>\u00a0revealed that both sides are preparing to fight their corners. In this, the most exposed countries are the Indo-Pacific\u2019s middle powers, which are trapped between the feuding great powers.<\/p>\n<p>Wei helpfully\u2014and forcefully\u2014told ASEAN countries that China\u2019s newly acquired South China Sea islands are now its territory for ever more and it will fight tooth and nail to keep them. Displaying considerable chutzpah, Wei then declared that China has always been peaceful and never used force to capture any territory. The history of China\u2019s armed seizure of Johnson South Reef (now an 11-hectare military facility), in which 64 Vietnamese soldiers died and two ships were sunk, has seemingly been rewritten\u2014just as the history of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/china-wants-us-forget-tiananmen-it-important-we-don-t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tiananmen Square<\/a>\u00a0has been.<\/p>\n<p>For Australia and other regional nations that have China as their major trading partner, Shanahan\u2019s speech also raises concerns. He launched the US\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2019\/May\/31\/2002139210\/-1\/-1\/1\/DOD_INDO_PACIFIC_STRATEGY_REPORT_JUNE_2019.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new Indo-Pacific strategy<\/a>, which advocates defence preparedness, military partnerships and networking to counter a revisionist China, a malign Russia, a rogue North Korea and diverse transnational challenges. In that document, China gets four pages; the others, one each.<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/beyond-balancing-alternative-us-grand-strategies-for-dealing-with-china-and-russia\/\">&#8220;Beyond \u2018balancing\u2019: alternative US grand strategies for dealing with China and Russia&#8221;<\/a> article published at The Strategist, written by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Peter Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER LAYTON\u00a0| It\u2019s time to start paying attention. The US\u2013China spat is doubling down. The hardline speeches given by Chinese\u00a0Defence Minister Wei Fenghe\u00a0and then acting US\u00a0Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan\u00a0at the recent\u00a0Shangri-La Dialogue\u00a0revealed that both sides are preparing to fight their corners. 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