Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, President of the International Movement for a Just World analyses a wide variety of issues including the emerging BRICS nations, the crisis in Syria, and the implications of Washington’s policy shift to the Asia-Pacific region.
In January 2012, US President Barack Obama unveiled the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance report, entitled, “Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense,” which confirmed America’s plans to drastically increase its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region to counter China, now the world’s second-largest economy.
Following a speech by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at the eleventh annual Shangri-La Dialogue defense summit in Singapore calling for the expansion of American alliances with defense treaty partners in the Asia-Pacific such as Australia, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand, the United States would announce its plans to reposition 60% of its navy to the region by 2020.
The increasing militarization of the Asia Pacific highlights a growing emphasis on containing China, in a move to enhance Washington’s presence in one of the most economically viable parts of the world.
Source: http://nilebowie.blogspot.fr/2012/06/americas-pacific-century-containing.html
Suggested Reading:
AMERICA THREATENS CHINA: Pentagon Prepares for Confrontation in the Asia-Pacific Region, Centre for Research on
Globalization, June 3rd, 2012
NATO ENLARGEMENT: From the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, Centre for Research on Globalization, June 5, 2012
MILITARIZATION OF ASIA-PACIFIC: America Revives And Expands Cold War Military Alliances Against China, Centre for Research on Globalization, June 9th, 2012
THREATENING CHINA: South China Sea: U.S.-Japan Military Deployments Put Region At Risk,Centre for Research on Globalization, May 5, 2012
Nile Bowie is an independent writer and photojournalist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; he regularly contributes to Tony Cartalucci’s Land Destroyer Report and Professor Michel Chossudovsky’s Global Research Twitter: @NileBowie