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Relations bad – ASEANUS intervention is viewed as unwelcome. Mark Landler, White House correspondent, July 23, 2010 “Offering to Aid Talks, U.S. Challenges China on Disputed Islands”, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/world/asia/24diplo.html Opening a new source of potential friction with China, the Obama administration said Friday that it would step into a tangled dispute between China and its smaller Asian neighbors over a string of strategically significant islands in the South China Sea. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at an Asian regional security meeting in Vietnam, stressed that the United States remained neutral on which regional countries had stronger territorial claims to the islands. But she said that the United States had an interest in preserving free shipping in the area and that it would be willing to facilitate multilateral talks on the issue. Though presented as an offer to help ease tensions, the stance amounts to a sharp rebuke to China. Beijing has insisted for years that all the islands belong to China and that any disputes should be resolved by China. In March, senior Chinese officials pointedly warned their American counterparts that they would brook no interference in the South China Sea, which they called part of the “core interest” of sovereignty. Intervention of any kind undermines state sovereignty, no matter the form it takesStuenkel 13 [(Oliver, School of Social Science (CPDOC) of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo, Brazil) “Rising Powers and the Future of Democracy Promotion: the case of Brazil and India” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2013, pp 339–355 Emphasizing the legality aspect of sovereign right, many thinkers are also critical of the practice, pointing out that it invariably violates another country’s sovereignty and self-determination.17 Foreign intervention of any kind, even benevolent advice, is thus generally considered an inappropriate intrusion into another’s domestic affairs, something democracy promoters often overlook, as they are seduced by a notion of ‘unity of goodness’, according to which responsible institutions and all other desirable things flow from democracy.18 In addition, excluding non-democratic regimes, e.g. by launching the idea of a ‘League of Democracies’, creates an ‘insider vs. outsider’ dynamic that sows mistrust and possibly even conflict, reducing the space for dialogue. Concerns about the internal character of regimes may provoke resistance and endanger world order.19 Accordingly, US foreign policy during the Cold War reflected American policy makers’ conviction that it was safer to ally oneself ‘with elites one could trust rather than the masses whom one could not. Download 357.18 Kb. Share with your friends:
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