Defending its sovereign interests and those of allied countries in the Pacific is the US mantra. US defence insists on and invests in strategic interoperability in that area. Colin Demarest writes about this for Defense News.
China is ranked as the greatest threat to the US but it is not with the culture of the ‘enemy’, we insist, that political sustainability of the world can be achieved.
China, Kissinger teaches in his book (a classic) ‘China’ (2011), is a reality of great complexity. It cannot be approached, in geostrategic terms, with ‘cold war’ linear logic.
If all countries have the right/duty to defend their national interest, and to safeguard their sovereignty, this cannot be done with the separating and only competitive logic. The world order in the making, completely different from the previous one, is outlining unforeseen scenarios that must be governed in a context of ‘glocalisation’ and regional or macro-regional response to global challenges.
The importance, to remain on the topic of the political sustainability of the world (and of the worlds), is to adopt a complex perspective of ‘cooperative competition’ and not, as continues to happen, of dividing the world.
