British Crown Declares China To Be "Gravest Strategic Challenge;" Demands U.S. Military Confrontation

Those who may have doubted LaRouche's warning that the British Empire is intent on war with China (as well as Russia), need to read this report from the leading British defense and intelligence think tank, RUSI, by its top gun for China, Dr. Jonathan Eyal.                  Mike Billington

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British Crown Declares China To Be "Gravest Strategic
Challenge;" Demands U.S. Military Confrontation

June 10, 2014 (LPAC)--In a a sharp polemic carried by the
Singapore {Straits Times}, Dr. Jonathan Eyal, International
Director at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), demands
immediate, military, provocative actions against China, while

ranting that China has become a dangerous aggressor threatening

the world.
    "[I}t is clear that China has crossed a fundamental
psychological barrier. Beijing is no longer engaged in just a
reactive or theoretical assertion of its rights to territories
and waters; China now sets the strategic agenda with pre-emptive
actions which create irreversible facts on the ground. And China
will continue doing so unless the United States and its allies --
both in Asia and elsewhere -- respond in a more coherent manner."
    Based in London, the Royal United Services Institute for
Defence and Security Studies, was founded in 1831, by the Duke of
Wellington, and has as its President, HRH the Duke of Kent.
    Eyal continued: "This is the most audacious and gravest
strategic challenge to the US and its allies since the
disappearance of the Soviet Union. Still, there are plenty of
ways the US can effectively respond to this challenge without
unleashing a war."

    "Incrementally, reefs and atolls are falling under Chinese
de facto control and, once they do, are enlarged to project
China's military power even farther afield. Regardless of the
imagery, the substance is the same: a set of supposedly small
steps which, once undertaken, are irreversible and, over time,
result in China gaining its territorial objectives."
    This demands escalation, says Eyal.
    "The only way the US can counteract this is by gaining what
strategy specialists call 'escalation dominance', by making it
clear to Beijing that China is not the only country which
controls how big or how small these confrontations are, and that
China can never be sure of the strength of the US response. If,
for instance, a small Chinese step in the South China Sea
prompted a strong and disproportionately large US response, then
Chinese military planners would have to think twice about their
next step in the escalation process."
    As an example, Eyal uses Obama's recent trip to the
Philippines. "Had he announced the immediate stationing of some
US Navy ships in the Philippines, that would almost certainly
have forced a rethink of strategy in Beijing."
    But this did not happen, so "escalation dominance is still
with China, precisely where it should not be."
    Eyal argues that only moves toward war can stop China's

"aggression:"

   "Given South-east Asia's currently fraught security
situation, it may seem odd to suggest that what the region needs
is even more uncertainty. But, it's only when Chinese
decision-makers realize that they can't predict how the US may
react that Beijing current strategy may be reversed." 

For the Straits Times article, see  

http://www.asianewsnet.net/A-China-power-play-in-choppy-waters-61251.html