Re-balancing Power and Economic Wealth in the Asia Pacific Regions

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Re-balancing Power and Economic Wealth in the Asia Pacific Regions

In nine (9) months more to go, the ASEAN Integration and ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) to forge an alliance of the ten (10) small nations with a combining of six (6) million population of women and men to form into one single economy. These small nations within the pacific rim has no military power to protect their security interest unlike the aggressive China and the Chinese regime mulling and bullying Asian by displaying their military might and superiority investing their resources for a military build-up over a couple of years. Does it make them to date “The number two power house of world economic domination second to the United Stated of America”. China gainfully controlled global production by their open markets policy attraction inviting foreign investors to invest in their country for a cheap local labor policy offers to foreign company.

Chinese government of displaying their military might in the disputed island South China Seas aptly called Mischief Reef, what is purpose and intension??? In a recent week past, Chinese regime displayed their Submarine which is carrying Ballistic Missiles according to Intel report of the US arms analysis released recently.

US warns versus militarization of Asian sea row in a recent visit of US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in his kicked off first Asian tour yesterday with a stern warning against the militarization of territorial rows in a region where China is at odds with several nations in the East and South China Seas.

Asked by reporter, whether the beef up US-Philippine military exercises were response to China’s moves, Carter said, the US and the Philippines has shared interests in the region, including a desire to ensure no changes in the status quo take effect through force or that territorial rows were militarized.

Carter said, “We take a strong stance against the militarization of these disputes,” Carter told a news conference after talks with his Japanese counterpart, Defense Minister General Nakatani.

In addition, the Philippines have said Chinese dredgers had started reclaiming a seventh.

Chinese workers are building ports and fuel storage depots, as well as possibly two airstrips that experts believe would allow China to project power deep into the maritime heart of Southeast Asia.

US Pacific Fleet Commander Harry Harris told an Australian think tank last week that China was using dredges and bulldozers to create a “great wall of sand” in the South China Sea.

China claims most of the potentially energy rich waterway, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. Ambition might control the passage of pacific sea lane which very strategic for sea cargo vessel delivery of bulk of container vans within and out of Asian regions trading partners. This commonly known “Pacific rim”.

Tighter alliance ties for rebalancing of power

Carter also welcomed progress toward the first update in US-Japan defense cooperation guidelines since 1997, a revision that will expand the scope for interaction between the allies in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to ease the constraints of Japan’s pacifist CONSTITUTION on the nation’s military.

“It’s going to give first of all Japan, but also our alliance, much greater scope to provide security in the region, and for that matter elsewhere outside of the region,” Carter said as the talks began.

Abe’s move to allow Japan to come to the aid of an ally under attack would pave the way for closer cooperation between US and Japanese forces across Asia. Admiral Robert Thomas, commander of the US Seventh Fleet, said last month.

How about the security of the ten (10) small nation’s member of ASEAN Integration and ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) have their own security??? Or are they secured and protected by Allied forces of the Super power??? If attack???

In January, Thomas said, the US would also welcome Japanese air patrol in the South China Sea.

Nakatani told the news conference with Carter, however, that the new guidelines did not target any particular region, including the South China Sea.

In a written interview with Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper published recently, Carter expressed concern about land reclamation in the South China Sea.

“We are especially concerned at the prospect of militarization of these outposts,” the newspaper quoted him as saying.

“These activities seriously increase tensions and reduce prospects for diplomatic solutions. We urge China to limit its activities and exercise restraint to improve regional trust.”

“If these outposts for military use by China it create tensions for the Asian regions, but if the purpose for commercial use or tourist attraction, I think, its normal has nothing to fear wouldn’t create trouble or conflicts”.

“China expansionism should only limit in their own territory, not occupying other nation’s sovereignty”. I am in favor of fair trade expansionism, because nothing will harm in business it create jobs, produced economic growth and GDP for all nations whether big or small country”.   

Carter also repeated US opposition to any to any “coercive unilateral” action by China to undermine Japan’s administrative control of disputed islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea.

China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying told s regular news briefing in Beiging: “We hope the US side can respect the wisdoms of China and relevant countries to resolve the problem via dialogue, say more responsible things and make more responsible moves, so it can genuinely play a constructive role in maintaining regional peace and stability.”

Abe’s government plans to submit bills to parliament in the coming months to ratify his Cabinet’s decision last year to allow Japan to exercise its right of collective self-defense, the biggest shift in Japanese security policy in decades.

“How about the small nations in the Southeast Asia have also the capability like what Japanese government moves in their parliament for security beep-up??? I think, they have no the same privilege like what Japan did???

Carter nakatani and two countries’ foreign ministers are expected to unveil the new defense guidelines in the late April, before Abe meets US President Barack Obama on April 28 for summit in Washington. (Abs Damahan Anchor of ADLSNTV, adlsntv.blogspot.com and Radyo ALERTO AM Radio 1107Khz)