China shows off its military to the dominance of the Asia Pacific region

The eastern Pacific region is confirmed in the center of the events of this beginning of the year. There is, in fact, only the problem of North Korea, but is outlined in an ever more relevant the Chinese attitude. Beijing considers the South China Sea, and the eastern one, which the southern one, as a zone of its relevance: an analogy might be the ambition that Russia has for the areas adjacent to her immediately to the west and who were part of the Soviet empire . For China there is this earlier, but the ambitions of the superpower identified as a region of their relevance above the waters of the China Sea in the economic and geopolitical perspective. Not for nothing that one of the points that Obama considered vital to its foreign policy interests functional to his vision of US interests, it was the garrison, even military, of this sea, for the preservation of historical allies, such as Japan and South Korea and the expansion of American influence to other countries like Vietnam, to hold the Beijing expansionism. The outgoing administration of the White House wanted to do more in this direction, but had to devote many resources to the unexpected emergency of the Islamic state, and the Middle East situation. The moment of transition of the transfer of power between Obama and Trump, China has decided to give a comprehensive demonstration of its military might, to give a clear signal of its intentions to the international community and the new US president. The intention of Beijing is to reiterate the function that has been assigned as the main power in the eastern Pacific Ocean region. Beijing has used military planes to intimidate South Korea and Japan, half that for Putin's Russia is customary: against Seoul would be violated the airspace of the country, at the narrow strait that separates the South Korea from Japan. In reality these, which Beijing defines normal military exercises, would have occurred numerous times already, especially since Seoul has extended its air space to encompass identification disputed island with Beijing and, just as a result of China's decision to extend the space plane of its relevance. Like every time you experience these encroachments South Korea does raise its military planes in flight, creating, thus, concrete possibilities of accidents, a prelude to very dangerous consequences. With Japan it has not occurred the invasion of airspace, but Chinese military aircraft flew very close to the border and were controlled directly by the Japanese air forces. Such cases are intensifying too much and the risk of a military confrontation, which can also be done in error, you are making more and more concrete. At the same time the vessels approached Taiwan, which China considers a rebel island and Trump said, in recent days, not to be the responsibility of China. This aspect seems to be a warning to the new US president, who immediately identified China as the main enemy, and expressed its proximity to Taiwan, however, immediately reciprocated by Taiwan authorities. At the same time the military actions in the seas of the eastern Pacific region, Beijing published a sort of program on cooperation and security in the area, focusing on the Chinese influence and the rejection of interference of other powers, including the warning against provocative actions against Chinese sovereignty, which will be subject to retaliation, and the recall is the smaller states, that the middle powers, to avoid taking sides in any disputes. It is understandable that the warning is directed to those countries, like Vietnam, that siding with the US has broken the will of Beijing's hegemony. Once again it will be interesting to see how Trump wants to deal with these, which seem intimidated, even in relation to the importance of sea routes, which run through these seas, for the US market. Chinese conditions are likely to fail to do, from the beginning, the intention of the new US administration to reduce the commitment abroad in favor of a greater commitment of the allies: the threat of Beijing can not be addressed without maintaining the involvement of the Pentagon .