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Another conflict 'made in the USA'


American leaders recognized after WWII that China would need to be contained as China was destined to return as a world leader after being attacked over 400 times from the West.

After China and Russia (along with the BRICS) have decided to bypass USD and trade only in local currency. Three months after this decision was made Japan decided to nationalize the disputed islands (an act of sovereignty) with USA's blessing. It is America's hope that Japan and China fight a war.

"The United States' underlying interest is maintaining a perpetual balance between Asia's two key powers so neither is able to challenging Washington's own primacy in the Pacific. During World War II, this led the United States to lend support to China in its struggle against imperial Japan. The United States' current role backing a Japanese military resurgence against China's growing power falls along the same line. As China lurches into a new economic cycle, one that will very likely force deep shifts in the country's internal political economy, it is not hard to imagine China and Japan's underlying geopolitical balance shifting again. And when that happens, so too could the role of the United States." Stratfor

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“Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Gen. MacArthur, Sec. of State John Foster Dullas & Pres. Eisenhower; All of them articulated the need for the US to have military basis on the first and second island chain in order to contain communist China

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Dr. Yoshihara, ‪U.S. Naval War College Strategy and Policy department Lecture |Rise of Chinese Seapower Feb. 7, 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P4sOH5JBXE‬

Since 1949, China has settled seventeen of its twenty-three territorial disputes. Moreover, it has offered substantial compromises in most of these settlements, usually receiving less than 50 percent of the contested land. China’s pattern of compromise in its territorial disputes presents several puzzles. For realists, China has not used its power advantages to bargain hard over contested land, especially with its weaker neighbors. Nor has it become less willing to offer concessions over disputed territory as its power has increased. Instead, China compromised in eight separate disputes as its power grew rapidly in the 1990s.

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/016228805775124534

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