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13.03.03, 20:14
China, On American Threat
As the USA intensifies the tension about Iraq, majority of experts pay
special attention to emphasized cautiousness of China. When Russia’s Foreign
Minister Igor Ivanov recently paid a visit to Beijing, he dropped hints that
Russia could use the right of veto at a session of the UN Security Council.
But his Chinese colleague Tang Jiaxuan just said general phrases on the
desirability of settlement of the Iraqi crisis in political methods. Premier
of the Chinese State Council Zhu Rongji didn’t mention Iraq in his report
delivered at the recent session of the National People’s Congress. And during
the session, Tang Jiaxuan artfully got out of replying questions whether
China would use the veto right. Within several past weeks there was hardly a
publication in the Chinese press with criticism in the USA’s address; this
once again confirms China’s unwillingness to irritate the US Administration.
It was quite a surprise that the other day the website of China’s central
newspaper, People’s Daily, published an article under the title The Fourth
Stage of the American Empire Formation. The publication was given without the
author name, and readers were offered to discuss it in the forum of the
website.
The text of the well-reasoned, honest publication allows to suppose that
China is tired of feigning cautiousness: America’s threat to the whole of the
world has gone too far that it’s finally high time to call a spade a spade.
And the ending of the article sounded a concealed threat! You may see it
yourself from the abridged summary of the People’s Daily publication below.
“At the time of its founding in 1776, the United States was composed of only
13 British colonies in the East Coast, its territory at that time was like a
small long strip.
In a short space of 200-odd years' time, the United States has developed into
a peerless empire of today, the reasons for this are: besides the fact that
the country enjoys perennial relative political stability, continuing
scientific and technological innovations and new achievements in economic
development, but an important reason for this is, without doubt, its constant
external expansions.
The American history of expansion can be divided into four stages: First,
continental expansion stage; second, overseas expansion stage; third, the
stage of global contention for hegemony; and fourth, the stage of world
domination. The continental expansion stage features mainly traditional
territorial expansion, the second, third and fourth stages feature mainly the
expansion of its economic, military and cultural influence. Completion of the
expansion process in each stage brought tremendous benefits to the United
States.
Continental expansion stage extended from the founding of the United States
to the eve of the American-Spanish War. This stage featured prominently
territorial expansion. In the early period after its birth, the United States
was very weak in strength, but it took advantage of the good opportunity
offered by Europe which was busy coping with the Napoleon War... Thereafter,
the United State began large-scale westward movement. By the end of the 19th
century, US territory had extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific
Ocean.
The overseas expansion stage extended from the US-Spanish War to the end of
World War II. During this period, the United States had become one of the
principal capitalist countries in the world, with substantial strength and
began to contend for colonies with other colonialists. The US-Spanish War
resulted in the expansion of US spheres of influence beyond the Caribbean
region and Central America, finally forming its direct or indirect political
and economic control over Latin America. Before the outbreak of World War I,
the United States turned Latin America into its own "backyard". During this
period, US influence rapidly expanded from the continent of North America to
the Pacific region, East Asia and the entire Latin America.
The stage of global contention for hegemony ranged between 1946 and 1991,
i.e., the Cold War period. As World War II just ended, US President Harry S.
Truman put forward Truman Doctrine, contested with the Soviet Union for the
vast intermediate zones.
The disintegration of the Soviet Union after the conclusion of the Cold War
led to the disappearance of the only power that could confront the United
States which put on rising hegemonic airs and did whatever it pleased,
characterized by its simultaneous use of military, economic and cultural
means.
After the "September 11" incident, the theory on establishing the American
century or a new empire has acquired a bigger market. After the "9.11"
terrorist attacks, the United States began a new round of powerful expansion,
with the aim of expanding the US spheres of influence to the whole world.
Iraq was chosen as the first target for this new round of expansion.
If US war on Iraq could end in victory, it would further give a powerful
impetus to the force for the establishment of US empire. But many American
experts and scholars maintain that the United States should not choose a road
by which to establish global order or an American empire through
unilateralism-based military actions. Only when the United States refrains
from taking the road of pursuing global empire, can it avoid terrorists'
bombs or other forms of attacks befalling on its own territory”
Andrey Krushinsky
PRAVDA.Ru
