In His SOTU Speech Obama Takes a ‘Cheap Shot’ at China and Proclaims America’s Right to ‘Lead’ Asia

The “Pivot to Asia” policy has been primarily driven by cold war and military conceptions of containing China’s rise. President Obama’s recent State of the Union speech kept with a distinctly American theme of soft-imperialism with mention of “writing the rules” to free trade agreements in Asia, instead of acknowledging China’s own sovereignty.



Stephen Harner, Former US State Department Official via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1JrfanR