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U.S. forging the creation of pro-Washington groups within Asean

Written by Kazi Mahmood
Thursday, 09 August 2007
U.S. want to enroll Asian armies Russia and China have agreed in principle to join the cohorts of Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean)’s Treaty on Amity and Cooperation however the U.S, which is one of the biggest and strongest partners of the Asean, has flatly refused to join this treaty. According to the opinion of the regional international relations experts the White House proclamation to enhance wide-range collaboration with ASEAN doesn’t prove the real deeds from American side. World Futures look at the one sided ‘winning’ formula that Washington is imposing in the region. Despite declared openness and political dialogue it is obvious that the real U.S. interests in the region lay in yet another area: That of containing China and of maintaining its powerful influence in the region.The only field of cooperation which is being promoted by the US is military collaboration aimed at involving ASEAN countries into the process of realization of American geopolitical plans towards Asia-Pacific region. The US plans to create a “hard-line” group of ASEAN countries to contain and counteract the growing influence of China.While Beijing is laying down the ground work for future dominance of parts of the region – from the Andaman seas to the mouth of the Malacca Straits where its domestic products and its imports are ferried daily – the U.S. is doing all it can to undermine China’s rise as the major player in the South East Asian (SEA) region.With the growing interest of China in the Malacca Straits, the U.S. found that it was not the only one that had the right (per-se) to have a say in the security affairs of the straits. Its interest in the canal drew more attention from other regional powers than it expected and its successive failures to grab the straits from the control of the littoral states are now almost a consumed affair.Yet its persistence to be concerned by the security and so called ‘terror’ situation in the straits regained momentum with the sudden rise of China as the future super power that may control the region. In the event of a Chinese total control of the SEA routes (sea and air) which will mean a great loss to the U.S, Washington believe there will be a greater imbalance in the pursuant policies of the U.S. in Asia.Hence the fresh new ideas of creating a nascent but important nucleus of nations, members of the Asean but that would show outer total support for the foreign policies of the U.S. in the world and in Asia. This group of nations which may include Singapore in the first place – thus giving the tiny capitalist Island a major military cum political role in the region – would also include either Malaysia or Indonesia and Thailand (depending on which nation’s government is willing to take up the ‘challenge’ of being seen as utterly pro-American. Australia will play an important role in this para-military and political formation that will operate within the Asean with the orbital objective of containing China’s rise in within the Asean and blocking the forceful entry of Russia as a technological, political and economic partner in the region. The aim is also to target countries like Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos – which are pro-communists and are in a very informal way but succinctly obvious pro-China nations – and to attempt a reversal of their current leftist regimes. Besides the almost addicted need to control the crucially important Malacca Straights, the White House, it is revealed to World Futures (www.worldfutures.info) that Washington intend to recruit soldiers to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan in a bid to enlarge the failing ‘coalition of the willing’ and to enroll the Asean nations into its own bloody battles against the Muslim world.In the future world as it is being pre-designed by the U.S., Washington will not be the only nation to contribute combat soldiers and weapons in the war on terror or the war against Islam, thus making it possible for an end of the ‘clash of civilizations’ that was unleashed by G. W. Bush jr. after his warmongering moves since 911. Where will the soldiers come from is obvious. It is the Asean region that will have to contribute soldiers, equipment and weaponry (with the logistics surely provided by the U.S.) in the attempt by the White House – even in the last days of Bush as President (which reminds us of the last historical days of Hitler in his bunker) – to pursue the war on terror and to enhance the U.S.’s capability to refrain China and eventually Russia from stepping into territories earmarked as ‘Washington’s’ territory.Besides the vast human resources (soldiers) and strategic locations (military bases), the South East Asian states are considered to be a point of attraction for Washington because of their rich reserves in oil and gas. The U.S. has been chasing after the policy of controlling all possible oil and gas reserves on earth, by either invading the nations with oil and gas reserves or setting up bases right in the heart of the geographical locations where oil and gas are to be found. The current insistence to either bomb Sudan or invade Darfur to supposedly maintain control and security in the territory of others is because the White House want to have a share of Sudan’s oil, says some experts. The same logic is applied in the South East Asian region where oil and gas is still a vulnerable resource as long as it is not a security issue for countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam or Brunei.The Asean, still staggering to become a formal community and a common market, will find it difficult to draft a series of rules and regulations that may become laws in the future and would pertain to the grouping’s securing of its existing and future oil and gas reserves. In the light of this, the U.S. is clearly offering the Asean grouping a helping military hand in future security aspects of oil and gas exploration in the region.If that was to happen, then the process of exploring resources in the region will be beneficial to one side only: The Americans, stupid! The bright example about this assertion is the activity of the American corporation “Freeport” in Indonesia. Freeport has been in the news in the recent past, not for contributing to the Indonesian economy but for a totally negative impact on Indonesia and on its people. The company Freeport has been accused of neglecting local laws and traditions and for exploiting the country’s natural resources in barbarian style without care of future generations.This will be the case in the event it is another or the same American corporation that will be given the right – through military pressure indeed – to scavenge and exploit for oil and gas in the SEA region.Additional arguments that prove the statement that Washington does not consider the ASEAN as an equitable partner is the US refusal to participate in the US-ASEAN Summit planned to be held in Singapore in September, 5 2007. As a pretext the White House argued about the necessity to focus on domestic affairs, but this sounds too weak a reason for not attending and participating in the forthcoming ASEAN summit.Moreover US still reject to join Treaty on Amity and Cooperation, fundamental regional agreement which serves as a base to enhancing relations with ASEAN dialogue partners. The treaty was drafted in 1976. Its Article 1 says the purpose of this Treaty is to promote perpetual peace, everlasting amity and cooperation among their peoples which would contribute to their strength, solidarity and closer relationship,. In its Article 2, the treaty says in their relations with one another, the High Contracting Parties shall be guided by the following fundamental principles: a. Mutual respect for the independence, sovereignty, equality, territorial integrity and national identity of all nations; b. The right of every State to lead its national existence free from external interference, subversion or coersion; c. Non-interference in the internal affairs of one another; d. Settlement of differences or disputes by peaceful means; e. Renunciation of the threat or use of force; f. Effective cooperation among themselves. It would not be difficult to understand why the U.S. does not want the Asean to abide by this treaty in light of its future plans for the Asean region!
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