No one can contain China, scholar says amid territory rows
No one can contain China’s rise, a leading Beijing foreign policy thinker said on Tuesday, warning Manila and Tokyo that they had been mistakenly emboldened by Washington in territorial disputes with his country.
No one can contain China’s rise, a leading Beijing foreign policy thinker said on Tuesday, warning Manila and Tokyo that they had been mistakenly emboldened by Washington in territorial disputes with his country.
China is embroiled in a bitter row with Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea, and also claims almost the whole of the South China Sea, where it has engaged in stand-offs with Philippine forces.
At the same time the Obama administration is engaged in a “pivot” to Asia.
But Ruan Zongze, vice president and senior fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, said: “No one in this world will try to contain China and no one in this world is capable of containing China.
“Since the United States has adopted this new strategy of returning to the Asia-Pacific region, some countries have made the wrong judgment that the US will encourage them to challenge the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China,” he added.
The United States is very clearly aware that it is responsible for this conflict between China and Japan over the Diaoyu Island issue
“This is a misjudgment on their part.”