President Obama said that the US is “all in” regarding its placement in the future of the Asia Pacific region. According to Professor Geoffrey Garrett of the University of Sydney, America knows the history of the 21st century will be written in the Asia-Pacific. The US goal, as a “Pacific nation”, is to realise the “vast potential” of the region.
As another commentator put it, “The hardly subtle Obama spin is that China must "play by the rules of the road", and stop its "military advances". This Washington narrative implies a benign superpower - the US - intervening to protect an Asia under siege.”
The move is straight out of the pages of the Cold War and any good Historian will note that strategic militarization is the first signpost one encounters on the road to war. The Cuban Missile crisis is a lovely example.
In keeping with recent announcements from Secretary of State Clinton, Obama emphasised that American attention was now principally focused on the Asia Pacific region.
In Papua New Guinea, the Americans and the Chinese already have substantial economic footing. American Energy Giant ExxonMobil will be operating the much talked about Liquefied Natural Gas Project. Indeed the LNG Project is for Papua New Guinea, too big and too important to fail. And certainly for America, which is trying to establish now a firm presence in the Pacific, the LNG, and its potential failure presents a unique opportunity for the Yanks to place themselves in the biggest indigenous Pacific nation.
Now why should America do this? Why should a superpower make PNG, a Pacific country often mistaken to be in Africa, the centre of its attention? The question warrants cynicism. Luckily, the answer is rhetorical and honest-to-God. The reason why America should do this is the same reason why America has just set up military bases in Australia. The answer is China.
Chinese interests in Papua New Guinea are substantial. The most obvious interests, and ones that have caused great distress for Australia are projects operated by Chinese State-owned Enterprises. The Ramu Nico Project is one such interest. Already there has been uproar in Papua New Guinea over the PNG National Court’s allowing of the project’s operation despite the Court’s full acknowledgement of scientific assessment stating that the waste tailings that will be dumped in the sea of Madang will have catastrophic environmental consequences.
In his signature rhetoric, Obama highlighted that history may be “on the side of the free”, but as one commentator points out, all it really takes to see the delusion and the illusion of Obama’s particular statement is to ask an Arab housed at Guantanamo Bay about what “the side of the free” means; Washington can bend what it means to be free.
All that's left to do - like a good little christian nation - is to pray for our Papua New Guinea.
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We learned to our amazement untold tale of scandal.
Two long centuries buried in the musty vault,
hosed down daily with a gagging perfume.
America was a bastard the illegitimate daughter of the mother country
whose legs were then spread around the world
and a rapist known as freedom, free doom.
What does Webster say about soul?
All I want is a good home and a wife
and a children and some food to feed them every night.
After all is said and done build a new route to China if they'll have you.
Who will survive in America?
Who will survive in America?
Who will survive in America?
Who will survive in America?
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