Beijing weighs ‘Red Line’ in the sea to counter U.S. ‘anti-China containment policy’

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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) administration has good reasons to feel the heat on the geopolitical front.

schinaseafleet — A landing ship flotilla under the South China Sea Fleet of the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

Even as Beijing is embroiled in sovereignty disputes with a host of its neighbors over islets in the South and East China Seas, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta earlier this month announced that the Pentagon was prepared to station up to 60 percent of its naval capacity in the Asia-Pacific Theater by 2020.

Moreover, there are indications that countries such as India, Vietnam and Singapore are joining the “anti-China containment policy” supposedly spearheaded by Washington.

To counter this unprecedented challenge, the CCP leadership under President Hu Jintao has started waging “Red Line diplomacy” — drawing a “red line” around areas deemed integral to the fast-rising, quasi-superpower’s “core national interests.”

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