The lack of a U.S. carrier in the Pacific may be short-lived if the Navy deploys another in the next couple of months. But it shows how the open-ended operations with Iran are running some American sailors ragged, analysts say, while the Trump administration further retreats from the Asia-Pacific region and focuses on the Western Hemisphere.
“The administration says that the Pacific is supposed to be the most important behind the Western Hemisphere,” said Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Instead, the U.S. is “doing the exact opposite” of its previously expressed goal of pulling out of the Middle East.
I’m not sure what else they’d need to do to qualify, shy of actually building out a global network of military bases. In that case, sure. If they start acting like the US, then they’re no better than the US.
But for the time being, what I’m seeing - and I’ll quote Dr Lubinda Haabazoka, Director of the University of Zambia Graduate School of Business and former President of the Economics Association of Zambia on this one
To date, I’ve seen a lot of Chinese Hospitals (and factories and ports and colleges) opening up across the world. Meanwhile, the only thing guys like Trump and Starmer seem to want to contribute are frowns, finger wags, and 500 lb bunker busters onto wedding parties.
Yes, and what I’m saying is that the only reason they haven’t done that yet is because the US hasn’t let them. But I suppose that is something we can only speculate about until the time comes. And again, I think we only need to look at how they are treating Uyghurs and their aggressive/imperialistic local geopolitics to be able to guess how they would act if they were in the position the US is/was. And that’s not touching on their surveillance state which is unrivalled in the world.
That’s the same type of Neo-colonialism the French have been up to for the last 100 years. Definitely not something positive for these African countries. There’s a reason it’s called debt trap diplomacy.
I just don’t see why we should hope for the benevolence of the upcoming authoritarian super-power when there’s ample evidence they are no better and just haven’t had the freedom to be as bad scope-wise as the current super-power.
It’s not the US, it’s this big magic rock. Also works to scare away tigers
The magic rock apparently also makes people blind and naive towards chinese repression, what a world!
It is very cringe to see folks who clapped like seals when the US bombed a girl’s school get incredibly mad when someone else builds a girl’s school.
If a person denies what’s happening to the Uyghurs, they’re no better than the People denying the genocide in Gaza and shilling for Israel. But I’m sure that’s not you, right?
You used the Taliban’s miserable treatment of women to justify a 23 year holocaust in Afghanistan.
Now you’re calling a Chinese campaign to educate and elevate women living right next door to Afghanistan a genocide.
Beginning to think you just hate Muslims and want them to suffer.