Southeast Asia (ASEAN) can handle their own problem.

 

It is quite surprise on what Barrack Obama announced in Australia last Wednesday. He said that the US will boost military present in Australia in term of security in Asia Pacific. It will be about 2500 American troops in Darwin Australia about 500 miles from Indonesia; previously America has already put troops in Japan and South Korea, and don’t forget at the same day US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton assured the Philippine that the US will continue the 60^th years of mutual defense treaty with the Philippine, especially after the territorial disputes in the South China Sea with the China.

The US starts to worry about the China interest in Southeast Asia, and the conflict in South China Sea. The US has overreacted over the South China Sea conflict, the conflict should be manage by the ASEAN Nations and the China, for the rest three months they are entering a solid dialogue and show some progress, even though recently the Philippine offer a new proposal which is softly has been refused by most of the ASEAN Nations because its will slow down the present dialogue with China, the refusal of the Philippine proposal has show a sportive diplomacy ethic by the ASEAN toward the ASEAN International Relation.

In my perspective the US should look that as an important step for ASEAN in term of playing their role to keep peace in their region. Even the US have prominent ally such as Philippine in the region, they should allow the ASEAN and China resolve the conflict without the US intervention, because, definitely the China will wrath (which already) over the US intervention in South China Sea conflict. Anyway the China shows a good will toward their relation with ASEAN, they need ASEAN as an economic partner. I believe that’s what makes the US worried, the China passion over Southeast Asia for economic reason.

Everybody knows that US is on the edge of bankruptcy, if they doesn’t give a proper treatment for their economic problem and launch an effective economic policy. Maybe to tackle the China influence in Southeast Asia is one of the US economic and political policies.

Once again the US has overreacted about the China influence in Southeast Asia, indeed the China has the passion over this region but I don’t really sure that the China is “accepted” in the region, for example China products in Indonesia and Malaysia does not really get into the market, Indonesian and Malaysian prefer the common standard that they already familiar with, which is the standard that already introduced by the western and Japanese commodities. Some of vital industries such as mining and energy industries seem hard for the China Company to get a contract in the region except in Myanmar, the Chinese have a good relation with Myanmar.

I believe that the Southeast Asia Nations have their own perspective about how to accept China as a partner in economics and politics, and the US need to revise their foreign policy in Southeast Asia, boost a military power surrounding Southeast Asia and China will be not a good option, it will provoke tension in the region. The international communities in this particular matter are the ASEAN believes that they can handle the problem without any foreign intervention especially the US.