David G,

so why then are most other Asian nations concerned about China?

Yes David, contained by the US, Chinese can't just use violence to take the oil in the sea common to them, Japan, Vietnam, Philipines and etc. Poor hard done Chinese, are you simple or can't detect a Bully till they take your lunch money?

Chris and MacKackie, obviously, in common with many Australians, you are both suffering from a surfeit of U.S. indoctrination.

Why don't you both move to the U.S. and experience some of the joys that can be found there like homelessness, poverty, illegal surveillance by the State, violent crushing of dissent, torture and rendition, gun massacres, and, wait for it, there is now talk of using drone attacks against dissenters ON AMERICAN SOIL!

Yeah, great place! Good luck!

David G, i agree with you, i hope Aust never mirrors the social development of the US. I was there in 1991 and it is probably worse now.

But why are the other Asian countries concerned about China rather than the US, that is all i ask

Chris, perhaps the smaller Asian countries see what the imperial U.S. has become and think that perhaps China will follow suit.

However I don't believe the Chinese psyche is predisposed towards war and killing whereas the American psyche certainly is!

Cheers.

Chris,

One would have to question the premise of your question. Are the countries of East Asia really concerned about China, or are they concerned for example, being caught in the pincer movement brought about by Obama's so-called "pivot" to Asia. That pivot in reality is another name for a policy of containment of China. The US does not accept any challenge to its hegemony.

Look at the American bases surrounding China, at the presence of the American fleet in the South China Sea, at the nuclear threats that have been made at regular intervals since 1949, at the highly provocative exercises carried out (with Australia and South Korea) on the North Korean border etc etc.

It is important not to confuse Chinese policy with what the western media persistently misrepresent China's policies to be. Africa is a good example. China is pouring billions of dollars worth of aid into more than 40 African countries, creating infrastructure that centuries of colonial rule neglected to do. The Americans are building military bases and promoting endless mini wars to both justify their existence and also to control the exploitation of Africa's mineral and oil resources. Only the terminally naive don't see it for what it is.