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China’s goals and interests are not in line with those of US: Experts | | The problem US faces more is the interests and the goals of the United States and China are not the same, some Asia experts have said.
“The heart of the effort of this administration, and to be fair, of previous administrations, has been to tell the Chinese what their interests are … and then to think that perhaps we could bring the Chinese around to seeing the world as we do,” Dean Cheng, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center in Washington, said.
“The flip side is that the Chinese have a pretty good idea of what their interests are, and those interests very often do not align with those of the United States ,” he added.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, the over-arching theme of the Beijing visit is the Obama administration’s long-term objective of seeing a rising China emerges as a responsible and contributing leader in international affairs.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Beijing is also looking forward to help maintain stability and prosperity, rather than for conflict, in the resource- and trade-rich Southeast Asia region, the report said.
According to the report, those differing interests are likely to surface over two key topics of Clinton ’s visit: the mounting tensions over territorial disputes in the Asia-Pacific region, and particularly in the South China Sea, and Syria .
Clinton arrives in China from Indonesia, where she once again emphasized the US position: that while the US has no territorial claims in the region, it does have considerable economic and national-security interests in seeing one of the world’s most prosperous regions stable and open to international trade, the report said.
“The US has a national interest … in the maintenance of peace and stability, respect for international law, freedom of navigation, [and] unimpeded lawful commerce in the South China Sea ,” she said at a press conference on Monday.
“The US does not take a position on competing territorial claims,” she added, “but we believe the nations of the region should work collaboratively to resolve disputes without coercion, without intimidation, and certainly without the use of force.”
The US is advocating a multilateral and diplomatic solution to the region’s territorial disputes, starting with adoption by the region of a “code of conduct” for resolving competing claims in the resource-rich South China Sea basin short of the aggressive measures, the report said.
China , as the region’s economic and military behemoth, prefers to address each dispute bilaterally. “From their perspective, multilateralism works against them,” Cheng said.
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