La estrategia naval china.

COMENTARIO: China necesita de su mar interior. El Mar del Sur de China. Como Atenas y Roma antes lo necesitaron. Para dar un ejemplo más concreto. Es lo que los EE.UU., bajo la dirección de Teddy Roosevelt (1ro como secretario de marina, después cono vice y presidente) realizaron a fines del sigo XIX. El mentor intelectual de la maniobra estratégica fue el marino Alfred Mahan. Sus hitos: la construcción del Canal de Panamá y la Guerra contra España por Cuba y las Filipinas. También, la anexión pacífica de la Isla de Hawaii.
Digo esto para tener en cuenta cuanto tiempo es falta a los chinos para ser una potencia naval y tener una verdadera marina de "blue waters".
Por otro lado, es difícil hacer una comparación con nuestras realidades regionales. No tenemos ni las intenciones ni los medios de los ejemplos citados. Por otro lado, hay que tener en cuenta lo que aprendieron los ingleses cuando dejaron de ser una potencia naval. En lugar de las ideas de Mahan apelaron a las del historidor naval Julien Corbett. Que propugnaba por el uso disperso de las flotas, en lugar del empleo reunido que abogaba Mahan. 
Nos preguntamos cuanto daño le hubieramos hecho al inglés, si en lugar de haber seguido a Mahan, hubieramos leido a Corbette. Colocando fragatas y destructores en las caletas y fiordos de Malvinas. Empezando por el Grl Belgrano en Pto Argentino.
 

 

China general defends maritime role in island disputes.

China says that the Diaoyu islands have been part of its territory since ancient times

El General Qi Jianguo.

A senior Chinese general has rejected criticism over his country's role in territorial disputes in the South and East China seas. Gen Qi Jianguo, deputy chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army, insisted that China wanted peaceful development alongside its neighbours. He insisted on China's sovereignty to the Diaoyu islands butdistanced it from claims to the Okinawa group. Meanwhile police in Vietnam arrested at least 20 anti-China protesters. Demonstrations took place in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi as part of growing tensions over long-standing territorial disputes in the South China Sea, including the Spratly and Paracel Islands.

'Peaceful negotiations'

Gen Qi, who is also China's head of military intelligence, was speaking at a security conference in Singapore - the Shangri-La dialogue - where China's military behaviour has been questioned."China has never taken foreign expansion and military conquering as a state policy," the news agency AFP reported him as saying.

"We have always held that conflicts and disputes should be properly solved through dialogues, consultations and peaceful negotiations."

The general insisted China could not be seen as a threat and should be judged by its actions, the BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus reports.

The general's comments will not satisfy China's critics, our correspondent says, but his presence at the conference was important.

In his speech, Gen Qi said recent articles by Chinese scholars claiming that Beijing may have rights to the Ryukyus, thechain of islands known in Japan as Nansei and which include Okinawa, did not represent the views of the government.

But he repeated historical claims to the islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

In April, Japan warned it would respond with force if any landing attempt was made on the islands after eight Chinese government ships sailed nearby. Taiwan also lays claim to the islands.