Zheng also said, "it is possible to have new type of relationship between the major powers as the interdependency grows in a shrinking global village."
China has been developing by integrating into the global system. From its perspective, a peaceful environment is in its interest. China has so far held steadfast to its strategy of peaceful rise despite the seemingly provocation and has spared no effort to repeatedly assure other countries that it is in pursuit of peace and development.
From the U.S. perspective, it should also make efforts to explain its pivot to Asia to countries in the region in a way that does not create "unintended consequences," as maintained by Bonnie Glaser, a senior adviser for Asia in the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
There is no coincidence that China has been experiencing more problems increasingly with its neighboring countries as the United States spread the message of its "pivot to Asia." Indeed some of the countries are having the mentality of "seizing the opportunities" before China's further growth.
It is not that China may view it with suspicions, but that this might give misperceptions to other countries in the region that they should either side with the United States or China.
Singapore has made it clear in the past that it does not want to be forced to choose.
But they don't have to, as even both China and the United States know that the interdependency between them far outweighs the competition, that is, if you do see the bilateral relations from a strategic point of view.
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