China's President Xi Jinping (center), pictured here with Politburo members in Beijing on October 25, 2017, has adopted a higher-profile foreign policy than his predecessors. REUTERS/Jason Lee
Peter Marino, Reuters: Inside the growing backlash against China
China’s rise over the last generation has been impressive, with the country moving from the periphery to the center of the global system, and climbing from impoverished backwater to a position of substantial wealth and power. But the strategic environment in which China’s “lay low” approach to international affairs has helped to make it the world’s second-largest economy is changing – and a broader backlash against China is beginning.
Under President Xi Jinping, Beijing has been pushing an increasingly aggressive and high-profile foreign policy, attracting the sort of attention that Xi’s predecessors had carefully avoided. Now, countries that only a few years ago welcomed Chinese investment and engagement are beginning to mobilize against Chinese influence.
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WNU Editor: When I was in China 30 years ago .... no one cared what they did. Today .... everyone does. China's problems in Asia stem from its territorial and border ambitions .... every country that has a border with China is in the middle of the border dispute with Beijing, and Beijing is not bending. Outside of Asia .... China's economic power is being used .... and very effectively. Beijing's focus is on owning and controlling resources that it needs, and while China does pay a very good price when purchasing these assets, China is finding out that in many countries the government may approve of what China is doing, but the people who live in that country do not. This is only going to get worse with time, and (I predict) it will bring claims that the European colonialists of the past have now been replaced by the Chinese.
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