tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138994904411225576.post8913329626006752170..comments2023-12-29T00:08:21.051-08:00Comments on fear of a red planet: Xi As The Undoer Of Deng, ContinuedGilman Grundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138994904411225576.post-62614975595524417902014-09-05T23:17:59.650-07:002014-09-05T23:17:59.650-07:00Yes, it was under Deng Xiaoping that China attacke...Yes, it was under Deng Xiaoping that China attacked Vietnam.<br /><br />In any case, it seems to me that China's foreign policy remains as follows: complete intransigence on territorial disputes with its neighbours, and a subdued and low profile role in any other international crisis. After all China is clearly on the same side as Russia in Ukraine and Syria, but they are very careful not to state this openly, and to appear neutral and detached. I don't see this changing right now. They have not even expressed any strong positions on events closer to home in Thailand.<br /><br />It is true though that China is getting more assertive and aggressive over its territorial disputes in the South China Sea.Ji Xianghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03406727999722525339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138994904411225576.post-41228341975530641352014-09-02T23:01:22.836-07:002014-09-02T23:01:22.836-07:00Just commented at the original post:
Deng is said...Just commented at the original post:<br /><br />Deng is said to have prescribed two generations of leadership. I don't think he could tell at the time where China would be in 2014. Therefore, my best guess would be that this is neither a continuation nor a rejection of the Deng heritage. it's a gradual change in Chinese policy which makes sense, for example, for the Chinese energy sector, but also for the military-industrial complex. I don't think Deng would have stopped this. The last time he talked <i>anti-imperialism</i> was in the mid-1970s, in a talk to the UN General Assembly.<br /><br />Since then, he picked China's enemies in accordance with weight and size. Vietnam can tell. Beijing's Vietnam policy, btw, is continuity in itself.<br /><br />And I'd add that this is pretty much the way of state-to-state interaction under the current set of rules: from central America to Syria, from Ukraine to the South China Sea.<br /><br />In that sense, the author doesn't need to worry about how to predict China's future policies. It will depend on actual power, and the question if there'll be all-out war depends on good - or bad - judgment among the stakeholders.justrecentlyhttp://justrecently.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com