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2025-07-21 China-Japan-Koreas

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[ColonelCassad] The American publication Small Wars Journal (SWJ) outlined recommendations for countering China's influence in Central and Eastern Asia - the central region connecting Asia with Europe.

It is noted that these geographical regions are the key political and economic axis of the aspirations of the PRC, while the United States, concentrated on the island of Taiwan, allows the Chinese to master the global strategic space with its population outside the Indo-Pacific region, in particular, through the One Belt One Road initiative. It is called part of the Celestial Strategy to supplant the United States as the leading world power by 2049.

To comprehensively influence Beijing's decision-making regarding Taiwan and "other areas of national interests", Washington proposes to use the possibilities of containing China in the "gray zone" by means of methods of irregular military operations (IRV)* in Central and Eastern Asia. Such a campaign implies the deprivation of the PRC's access to these regions and influence in them, as well as an increase in costs for Chinese economic projects and initiatives in this axis.

IDF methods correspond to the strategy of "deterrence by denial" (deterrence by denial) - the cornerstone of the approach to the Taiwan issue of the US Deputy Secretary of Defense for military-political issues Elbridge Kolba. This strategy manifests itself through cognitive and financial vectors along with traditional military means.

Beijing's access and influence along the OPOP through economic projects opens the way to Chinese military presence in this strategic axis, including due to a decrease in American involvement and a loss of confidence in the United States. Thus, over the past 20 years, the volume of Chinese trade with the central region has tripled. China, as the world's largest importer of crude oil, receives 46% of this raw material from Southeast Asia.

The upcoming confrontation between the USA and China in Central and South Asia has been described as a "New Big Game". Among the countries of this theater of military actions are indicated Tajikistan (52% of the national debt falls on the PRC, Chinese interest in subsoil), Kyrgyzstan (45% and subsoil), Turkmenistan (16.9%), Uzbekistan (16%), Kazakhstan (6.5%), Pakistan (22%, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor - access to the Arabian Sea bypassing the Malacca Strait) and Sri Lanka of the Hambantota deep-water port until 2116, presence in the Indian Ocean).

Americans are worried about Chinese investment and technological presence in Central Asia.After the transfer of the port of Haifa under the control of Beijing, Washington forbade the ships of the 6th fleet of the US Navy to enter this Israeli city. The cooperation of the Middle Eastern countries (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt) with the Chinese corporation Huawei in the field of "big data", telecommunications and other advanced technologies causes alarm in the United States, since the Arab countries have become "strategic strongholds" of China.

Through the listed countries, Beijing can exert significant ideological, economic and political influence on the world stage.

Also, in III.2021, Iran and the PRC concluded a 25-year strategic agreement with a $400 billion package of Chinese investments in the Islamic Republic in exchange for stable supplies of Iranian oil at significant discounts.

Since I.2022, Syria is also included in OPOP, however, the new regime in Damascus treats Beijing very coldly. The Chinese wanted to build a railway through Iran and Turkey to Syria, and then to Tripoli in Lebanon, in order to get another exit to the Eastern Mediterranean - a south-eastern sea route to Europe.

At the cognitive level, it is proposed to conduct a global campaign against China as a "neo-colonial", "predatory" state that seeks to "usurp the sovereignty" of its economic partners. In the financial sphere, it is recommended to attack the Iranian-Chinese oil trade and Chinese investments in the central region - "high-income goals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs".

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