Interesting article in NY Times

Thanks for sharing this interesting article. Very relative to the course and some of the topics we have covered.

I found it interesting that in this article, China was having war games with Australia, who I thought was our ally. Yet I can understand this, because of course, Australia, is much closer to China than we are. They are probably trying to "play nice", and therefore, play it safe. I found it interesting also, that the writer of the article indicated he thought that the hostility by the military was possibly caused by the up and coming's military men, because they were "inexperienced". Or, he mentioned that they had been taught that America was the enemy. Personally, from the time that I have taught about China, it seems that they have almost always been skeptical and somewhat hostile to outsiders, being just generally insular. Of course there has been exceptions in their history, like the voyages of Zhuang Ze (I think I have that right.)

Thank you for sharing with us this article. I found interesting the following “Why do you sell arms to Taiwan? We don’t sell arms to Hawaii,” said Col. Liu Mingfu, a China National Defense University professor and author of “The China Dream,” a nationalistic call to succeed the United States as the world’s leading power." In previous post I have also mentioned about a political add also considering the future political and military leading role of China in the world. Is this going to be the political reality in the near future?

Awesome article! It's amazing how the world has opened up in this short time of learning for me. Now I am seeing articles about Asia everywhere!