{"id":2911,"date":"2005-04-27T08:15:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T15:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/04\/27\/richard-halloran-chinas-alliance-gets-stronger\/"},"modified":"2005-04-27T08:15:26","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T15:15:26","slug":"richard-halloran-chinas-alliance-gets-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/04\/richard-halloran-chinas-alliance-gets-stronger\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Halloran: China&#8217;s alliance gets stronger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/getina\/files\/242418.html\">From the JoongAng Daily<\/a>, via IHT:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe fundamental issue is which alliance will prevail in East Asia, the autocratic coalition led by China that seeks to drive the United States from the region or the democratic grouping led by the United States that seeks a stable balance of political and military power in which trade and economic development flourishes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The critical question today is whether the current confrontation will lead to hostilities. Another U.S. diplomat doesn&#8217;t think so: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t make any sense,&#8221; he says. &#8220;There is no rational reason for such a war.&#8221; Many wars, however, have been started by irrational emotions that led to miscalculation. That is the danger for every nation involved in this dispute.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSee also, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/detaileditorial.asp?fileid=20050427.F04&#038;irec=3\">The role of China, Japan, and Korea in East Asia<\/a>&#8221; from the Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the JoongAng Daily, via IHT: The fundamental issue is which alliance will prevail in East Asia, the autocratic coalition led by China that seeks to drive the United States from the region or the democratic grouping led by the United States that seeks a stable balance of political and military power in which trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[6391,453],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-east-asia","tag-regional-power","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Richard Halloran: China&#039;s alliance gets stronger<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/04\/richard-halloran-chinas-alliance-gets-stronger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Richard Halloran: China&#039;s alliance gets stronger\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the JoongAng Daily, via IHT: The fundamental issue is which alliance will prevail in East Asia, the autocratic coalition led by China that seeks to drive the United States from the region or the democratic grouping led by the United States that seeks a stable balance of political and military power in which trade [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/04\/richard-halloran-chinas-alliance-gets-stronger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2005-04-27T15:15:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"177\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/04\/richard-halloran-chinas-alliance-gets-stronger\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/04\/richard-halloran-chinas-alliance-gets-stronger\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sophie Beach\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/7f19e31b674d57a7dc20aab8e908c663\"},\"headline\":\"Richard Halloran: China&#8217;s alliance gets stronger\",\"datePublished\":\"2005-04-27T15:15:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2005-04-27T15:15:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/04\/richard-halloran-chinas-alliance-gets-stronger\/\"},\"wordCount\":141,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"East Asia\",\"regional power\"],\"articleSection\":[\"China &amp; 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