The Chinese see another consequence of the drawdown in Iraq. In its report on President Obama's speech, the Communist Party newspaper Global Times quoted Ding Yifan, a researcher with the Development Research Center of the State Council, "By withdrawing from Iraq, the US can reinforce its control in Afghanistan, as well as its influence in the regions around Northwest China." As naval confrontations have heated up in Asia during the summer, Beijing may be seeing what it fears, a reorientation of U.S. forces and attention from the Middle East to the Far East, with a rising China as much the object of concern as Islamic terrorists.
By: Brant
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