Bro we do think alike, we Chinese sure know how to negotiate, we never deviate from our basic principle from Sun Tzu " when you surround your enemy, leave an outlet free" for westerner such idiom is an oxymoron strategy (they prefer a zero sum game) BUT from experience it means leave an option for a political solution, so you're correct a win win strategy.
Yeah brother, that is the problem right now.
The Chinese, insists on the win-win.
The Americans, are trying to play spoiler, in the region, and the military is a part of that equation.
This cannot continue. One side with the win-win, a term straight out of the textbook from MBA school in the west, wants to increase business. The other side wants confrontation and military solutions.
Yet, that is what people in the region are being faced with.
The more the Americans push, the more these options comes clearer.
The way the Americans are framing it, it is a choice between war and peace, the way they push it. All of ASEAN knows who is offering peace, and who is offering war.
The problem for the Americans, is this strategy has reached its logical dead end. Go fight that war alone, that basically is the outcome.
The problem for China and ASEAN, is how is management of this disengagement from the Americans, without disrupting anything.
It is a strange time in history. The superpower nuisance. Heh.
