The U.S. aircraft carrier Roosevelt, which entered the South China Sea on the 23rd, appeared 25 nautical miles from Huangyan Island two days later. Chinese scholars believe that this move by the U.S. war department is intended to deter the South China Sea from making rash moves.
China’s global website quoted the official microblog of “South China Sea Strategic Situation Awareness” as saying in the evening of Jan. 25 that the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier had entered the South China Sea via the Bus Strait at about 10 a.m. on the 23rd, and that a U.S. Air Force U-2S high-altitude On the 25th, the Roosevelt entered the waters 25 kilometers from Huangyan Island.
For the U.S. military recently sailed in the South China Sea. Wu Qiang, a former lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, said in an interview with the station that Sino-U.S. relations have become delicate since Biden became U.S. president. On the one hand, Beijing has shown goodwill to the Biden Administration in various ways, and on the other hand, it has shown a tough stance at the Davos Forum.
Wu Qiang said: Xi just had a speech against the old U.S. policy posture, but on the other hand, the domestic propaganda is the hatred of the United States, incitement has not decreased, including some tough practices against Taiwan. For example, in the past few days there have been unprecedented intensive military operations in the Taiwan Strait, with a large number of aircraft entering and provoking. It has destabilized and evened out the entire Western Pacific region.
U.S.-China confrontation in the Western Pacific
Ten days ago, the USS Roosevelt carrier strike group and The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force just conducted a joint exercise at sea. Wu Qiang believes that the U.S. aircraft carrier entered the South China Sea this Time, indicating that the confrontation between the U.S. and China in the Western Pacific region has been formed.
Wu Qiang said: The entry of the U.S. Navy carrier fleet into the South China Sea reminds us of Hans Morgenthau’s (an American political scientist). Morgenthau (an American political scientist) judged that the basic situation of the Cold War, the confrontation between the world situation of China and the United States, at least in the Western Pacific region, has been formed. And it is at the time of the current regime transition in the United States, which is in a sense the most vulnerable, to increase military power to correct the imbalance between the two levels of confrontation.
Gu Wei, a military scholar at Nanjing University, said in an interview with the station that the U.S. aircraft carrier’s entry into the waters near Huangyan Island this time is not enough to be interpreted as making adjustments to military strategy toward China.
Gu Wei said: Because he himself is on a mission to navigate the Pacific, this mission was actually issued under Trump, the United States is basically dominated by combat units, (government) orders are basically directional and executed by independent combat units. He’s not quite the same as China. The jury may still be out on whether the Biden administration will ultimately be tough or wishy-washy with China specifically.
It is worth noting that last Saturday (23rd) 13 Chinese PLA military aircraft entered the southwest airspace of Taiwan for patrol, and on the 24th there were even 15 military aircraft entering the southwest airspace of Taiwan for patrol, the scale of which is very rare.
According to Gu Wei, the recent large-scale entry of mainland Chinese warships into Taiwan’s southwestern airspace can be described as a provocative test.
Gu Wei said: Judging from the situation in the past few days, China’s sudden harassment of Taiwan by military aircraft, and the most serious one since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States (1979) and the largest scale, can be said to be a provocative test of the Biden administration. His aim is still to provoke the U.S. government.
Beijing scholar: U.S.-China confrontation is very similar to the pre-World War II period
Scholar Wu Qiang believes that the future of Biden to face external pressure is mainly Russia and China.
Wu Qiang said: especially in the Indo-Pacific region China and Russia, the rise of such authoritarian countries, this rise is very similar to the mood of Roosevelt in the face of the Nazi threat, but also the formation of Italy, Japan and other Axis powers, the impact on the entire national world.
Wu Qiang pointed out that there will be no systematic change in the Biden administration’s policy toward China in the short term. He believes that both the U.S. and China are engaging in a tentative manner to avoid causing conflict.
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