The US wants more US military presence in Yemen. Then they want to go to Somalia and then onto Kenya. With those countries under their belt, the US would control an entire stretch of territory all along the Indian Ocean's western rim (along Africa's east coast). China, which also has "interests" in that area of the world, would love to have a military presence along eastern Africa too. But the US is beating China in the race. The only country left for China's military presence along the Indian Ocean, would be Iran.
Obtaining control of the Gulf of Aden would be an American geopolitical dream come true. The Gulf of Aden is the gateway to the Indian Ocean and to all of Asia. The sea lanes of the Indian Ocean "are literally the jugular veins of China's economy. " The US is hoping that controlling these sea lanes would show the world that the US is not a declining world power.
India is an ally of the US. India is not an ally of China and does not want increasing Chinese naval presence in the Indian Ocean. India is hoping that Americans can help roll back Chinese influence in Sri Lanka too.
In the meantime, the US has taken a u-turn in its Myanmar policy and is engaging the corrupt regime there with the primary intent of eroding China's influence" with the military rulers in Myanmar.
"The Chinese strategy aimed at strengthening influence in Sri Lanka and Myanmar so as to open a new transportation route towards the Middle East, the Persian Gulf and Africa, where it has begun contesting traditional Western economic dominance." (1)
Bunch of garbage !
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ReplyDeleteThanks for your response. Geopolitics is like a chess game.... If I do THIS, how will my opponent react? What the sanitized US media tells the public, are oftentimes half truths.. (as seen for example with US military presence in Afghanistan to protect the construction of the Trans-Afghan Pipeline, and the media's flag waving, non-questioning and goose-stepping to the run up to the Iraq war). China has become the world's superpower. OF COURSE China is seen as a threat to US hegemony. I'm neither a politican or historian, but an American citizen trying to sort through the "garbage."
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