The reclusive North Korea again recently aired its malevolent intention of striking hard on its neighbor, South Korea, if the latter would continue to pursue its planned live-fire military drills on an island near the disputed maritime border.
This has prompted Russia to call on South Korea to discontinue the drill to ease the escalating tension that has been going on between the two Koreas. Of course, with Russia on the foreground of diplomatic settlement of the disputes between the Koreas, it would certainly give signal to the other goliaths that would lead them to intervene on the affairs of these davids.
As we recall last month, the 3-day biggest naval maneuvers were jointly conducted by the United States and Japan with South Korea as the observer. This event also was misconstrued by North Korea “somewhat” a provocative move of these countries that could have contributed to a much heightened situation in the region.
In another view, we can see how giant economies are now undertaking strategic moves that strengthens their relations with other sympathetic bigger or smaller countries. For example, Japan has recently agreed with the United States for the extension of the US military bases for another five years. This agreement was reportedly reached in anticipation to the escalating security concerns prevailing in the region while looking at the moves of China and North Korea.
Meanwhile, China has its own agenda. It strengthens its economic foothold to sustain its economic growth up to 2015 as it recently closed trade deals with India which amounts to $100 billion up by $60 billion in 2010. This bilateral agreement between these two Asian giants when viewed in a higher purview only implies a longer span of sustained economic progression that when taken into serious consideration would have relative complication on its effect to the world economy in some future times.
Although cooperation from economic giants can be expected to settle a consensus to slide down the rising tension in the Asian region, possibilities of future conflict is freakily absurd at this point in time, but it could spark out of the belligerent and defiant attitude of North Korea.
China is now on the verge of overtaking powerful edge to police the world as against the United States because it is now very confident that it can sustain its effort relying mostly on its robust economy with India in its rooster; while North Korea who relies economic aid from China, can continue making puissant distress to divert attention of the West from its major strategic foothold, which China of course could have wanted more.
Of course, other Asian countries that depend on the great opportunity that the Chinese economy can offer, their sympathetic view of taking every step of the way to grab a share will surely be their primary concerns.
The game that China play in continuing to push a 6-country dialogue on the Korean peninsula issue is only a part of its global ambition. Earlier, China has been reported to have strengthened its influence on the UN Security Council; and always has been a staunch supporter of North Koreas belligerent moves as showed by its continued refusal to condemn its ally’s notoriety against its neighbor, South Korea---China is pampering North Korea by allowing to do what it can undertake to do just as long as the “real value” of its action will turn out in favor to its own economic upliftment in the worldwide scheme.
This is the drama that these two communist countries are trying to draw and come out as an emerging two-tiered economic strategy which is a Maoist concept that was neglected to be realized by the West. Thus, the United States need to re-assess its global position in terms of economic base stronghold as China is also making its economy as the financial source while using the whole economy platform a drawn-out field of opportunities for rich countries to get attracted to. And China can only push through all these ambitious undertaking when one belligerent ally advances its own initiative of diverting a worldwide attention.
No matter what it takes, the Korean conflict hangs in balance the future of the world’s economy, a diversion that China and North Korea will continue to play. I just hope that those who were attracted to its domino move can find a way out from this quicksand attraction.
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