ChiCom's Threaten Isolation While Denouncing US Pride & Prejudice

Comment: Quasi-official analysis and commentary by an "organ" of the Communist Chinese Government concerning the recently released U.S. National Intelligence Strategy. The ChiCom's seem insulted and hurt. Aww! (See red highlighting) Normally I wouldn't be too worried -- only now, they own us.

Pride and Prejudice of U.S. Intelligence
www.chinaview.cn 2009-09-24 08:51:56

BEIJING, Sept. 24 -- The 2009 National Intelligence Strategy of the United States, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Sept 15, directly lists Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), China and Russia as the nation-states with the ability to challenge U.S. interests in traditional and emerging ways.

This is the first report on national intelligence strategy since President Barack Obama took office. Though the document itself would not necessarily represent the stance of the Obama administration, it will act as guidance for the president to formulate his intelligence strategy.

Through the report, we can conclude that although the United States has undergone a historic presidential election and a series of world-shaking events after 9/11, its strategic objective and modes of conduct have not changed, but continue to be enhancement of its global hegemony and prevention of any new emerging power.

In the present world of interdependence, national security is linked with more intercommunity relations, reciprocity and integrity. One nation's security can only be guaranteed in an overall safety environment.

According to the report, the major objectives of the United States intelligence service are to combat violent extremism, counter weapons of mass destruction proliferation, enhance cyber-security and integrate counterintelligence. All the objectives above, however, cannot be fulfilled by the United States alone. Though its anti-terrorism efforts have been going on for eight years, major international terrorist groups are still a headache. The worrisome situation in Iraq shows no sign of letting up and about 72 percent of Afghan territory is still under the control of al-Qaida. The soil breeding terrorism has not been cleared by the U.S.-led military campaigns.

It is strange that the world's largest nuclear power, the United States, is said to have now become the country most vulnerable to a nuclear threat. Shortly after he headed to the White House, President Obama outlined his vision of a nuclear-free world, appealing for worldwide nuclear disarmament.

However, we did not see any positive signs of the United States changing its strategic mentality in the new report stuffed with outdated pride and prejudice. The document claims that a number of nation-states have the ability to challenge U.S. interests in traditional (e.g., military force) and emerging (e.g., cyber operations) areas. In fact, the United States is the only country, which included high-tech network into military operations and was the first to set up a cyber-war command. The true objective of the United States is to obtain the capability that can threaten other nations' cyber security and to seek hegemony in this new emerging field.

It is said in the report that the objects of counterintelligence include not only governments of sovereign states, but also non-state players, violent extremist groups, cyber intruders, and criminal organizations, which are increasingly undermining U.S. interests in myriad ways. After the collapse of its old opponent - the Soviet Union, the United States found no effective solution to deal with the new security situation, but continued to seek "enemies", which might result ultimately in treating every other party as its "enemy". Guided by this kind of mentality, it is no surprise that together with Russia, Iran and DPRK, China also was blacklisted as a complex global challenge to U.S. interests.

The report reflects a kind of typical Cold War and power politics mentality, which not only runs counter to modern international political reality and hinders goodwill for cooperation among countries in the current crisis-torn world, but is also out of line with the U.S. long-term national interests. People who always assume others to be enemies may end up in isolation. The United States would not like to see its self-fulfilling prophecy come true someday.

(Source: China Daily)

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