SINGAPORE - Rarely does a top Chinese government official
take questions from foreign reporters in an open setting. But today, Chinese
Defense Minister Gen. Liang Guanglie addressed the 10th annual IISS Shangri-La Security Dialogue and took several
questions, including one set from your humble Cable
guy.
We asked him to react to yesterday's
announcement by Defense Secretary Robert
Gates that the U.S. would increase its military presence and involvement in
Southeast Asia, which
is widely seen as a response to Chinese assertiveness in the region and China's
recent aggressive actions in the heavily disputed South China Sea. We also asked him what the Chinese response would be and whether China's development of anti-access and area denial weaponry was contributing to an arms race in Southeast Asia.
Liang spent most of his answer praising recent improvements
in the U.S.-China military to military relationship, as Gates
had done all weekend as part of the joint effort to portray a warming of
ties. But Liang ended his remarks by claiming that in the South China Sea, "the freedom of
navigation has never been impeded, has never been a problem, and the situation
in the South China Sea remains stable."
The Chinese officers in the room next door were clearly not
happy with the Cable's questions, one
conference delegate told us after the session, and they were asking other conference
goers for details about this "rude American reporter."
china's military protects the chinese privileged groups' interests as everyone knows...and it's unbelievably aggressive and offensive to it's own people. maybe in the democratic system, even devil have rights to defense themself, but please make sure the angles also have rights to attack when so called devils' defense has threatened people's life.
otheyrwise, the doctrine democracy has no chance to defeat a flexible dictatorship. it would be too late to wait until there are results and number of casualties and dead bodies....as chinese people would thank america if america help china in advance and will always feel thankful in the new future. when america are too slow to take any actions because of spending too much time on balancing the profit conflicts inside states, america will lose it's piority chance to share the profits with a new china growing.
what make devil a devil? devil has done what he had to do to claim such a name.
i don't see any reasons should let the devil has it's rights to defense themself...the only love and generousity human have is to give devil the chance to change, to stop it's vicious actions. but not to tolerant it.
when we say we should let the devil have it's own rights, it only means we are losing our courage and dignity, wanting to compromise to devil to make a deal with them....and why? for it's selfish reasons any way....big house, big car, big name....only devil makes deal with devil....there are no excuses at this matter. people are smart enough to understand this simple philosophy.
Josh Rogin reports on national security and foreign policy from the Pentagon to Foggy Bottom, the White House to Embassy Row, for The Cable.
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