We've never really been on healthy terms with China. We have portrayed an open attitude towards them since Obama has been in power, showing we only want their trust. But the mistrust still remains, as Lt. Cmdr. Tony Cao says he wants America to stop "spying us with the air or the surface.”Clearly we're still suspicious too if we're still spying. Apparently, China's growing army has been using America to rally their troops:
The younger officers have known only an anti-American ideology, which casts the United States as bent on thwarting China’s rise.
“All militaries need a straw man, a perceived enemy, for solidarity,” said Huang Jing, a scholar of China’s military and leadership at the National University of Singapore. “And as a young officer or soldier, you always take the strongest of straw men to maximize the effect. Chinese military men, from the soldiers and platoon captains all the way up to the army commanders, were always taught that America would be their enemy.”
This is not good. If they're trained to think of us as the enemy, it will only perpetuate mistrust for us. This makes me question whether American relations with China will ever be solid.
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