CHINA FACE OFF: IT IS TOO LATE NOW TO TAME THE PANDA.

ICHEOKU says the West talking to China and expecting them to be more reasonable in the relationship between them is akin to talking to the Taliban or ISIS and expecting them to accept Western values and stop their hatred for Christians and Western civilization. There is an unbridgeable ideological and philosophical divide between the two civilizations which cannot be fixed through mere talking and/or negotiation as one must capitulate in order for the other to triumph. It will require the nuclear option to completely obliterate their thinking and forcibly impose Western values on them, otherwise they will never move an inch. They have to be militarily defeated and in their surrender terms, the adoption of Western values will be spelt out as a precondition for sparing any surviving leadership member. But expecting the current approach to work or thinking that sanctions and boycotts will do the magic is but a wishful thinking. China will never allow itself to be dictated to by the West nor will they ever compromise their national security values. 

Only a successfully military confrontation will see the West's desired change in China, otherwise all the talks and condemnations will remain what they are, mere hot air which could last in perpetuity without moving the needle. China sees the pressure being put on them by the West as an existential threat to its way of life and they will not accept it willingly. They have made their minds up to irrevocably stand their ground and will engage in a costly war if need be to defend their position. It is the Western nations that have not taken a firm stand on whether they are prepared to do what it takes to force the issue by confronting China militarily. As far as China is concerned, their position is irrevocably made known and they have thrown their hat in the ring and waiting for the West to make their next move. 

If the West takes a pass as it is most likely to do because they have no appetite for a bloody battle with China, then they must be prepared to put up with China's human rights violations and their dictatorial way of managing their very large population. Democracy does not work in a vacuum and China does not have the necessary institutions that supports democracy. So, the only two options available to the West are to either put up by going to war with China or to shut up by accepting China the way China is, understanding that China will always do what China does and will simply ignore the West as it steadily powers onward. The pressure would have worked several decades earlier when China was just taking off, but it is too late now as they have powered through the frontiers and unstoppably racing towards the finish line in their quest to surpass every country on the face of the earth. Nobody can stop them now and they will not allow anybody to even try and will go to war to prove their new status as a nation with a formidable might.

Had the West not wasted so much time before making their current lame effort to contain China, may be they would have succeeded in caging China or confined it to within an acceptable power status. But China has grown so exponentially over the many past decades that their military and economic muscles can help them stand their ground with much greater audacity now. Therefore China will not bulge nor will they ever submit to the West's pressure to reform. They will use their 1.6 billion population to bargain their way out of any given tight spot which they are forced into, short of shooting war. They will readily deploy them in  boycotting products from nations which they consider hostile to their national strategic interest. Unfortunately for the West, so many western companies and corporations have tasted the juiciness that comes with 1.6 billion people patronizing and buying their products and those companies will not allow their governments to spoil their fun. 

Therefore, as it presently stands, all the hollering of the West for China to reform is akin to a dog barking at a grizzly bear but dares not breach the distance between them to levy an attack. China knows that they are coming from a position of strength and that the West have no real choice in the matter. Also, the West cannot sanction China out of relevance as it lacks the capacity to ruin the Chinese economy.  Even militarily, China is no longer a push over banana republic and cannot be easily intimidated by naval armadas, fighter planes, missiles and bombs. So, what exactly can the West do to an uncompromising China to make them change their ways since increased decibel of their condemnations has no effect. 

ICHEOKU says nothing really except a full blown war and hope of a quick victory. It is what Bill Clinton led the world into by letting China into the World Trade Organization. Now they have matured fully and can no longer be pushed around by the West. Thereof only tolerating them as they are is the only real option for the West, short of going to a full blown shooting war with China. Hopefully, they will defeat China and then divide them up into smaller countries like a conquered territory or China will implode on its own just like the old Soviets Union. But as long as China remains one undivided country, they will remain a force of nature to reckon with and they will not allow themselves to be easily overawed, intimidated or dictated to. They will continuously resist the West's pressure and they will engage in tit for tat measures, sanctions for sanctions and boycotts for boycotts, in their push back of the West to back off.