US' containment fantasy

US defense chief Chuck Hagel raised the important issue of regional stability in Asia at the Shangri-La Dialogue forum in Singapore on Saturday, yet his proposal for collective confrontation against China is not the solution.

Accusing China of destabilizing the region and throwing the weight of the United States behind its allies in rallying against China, Hagel's words reflect a Cold War mentality of containment and reveal the US' anxiety about and hostility toward China's rising influence.

The US secretary of defense told a familiar bogeyman story in exaggerated detail, this time about an "evil China" greedily trying to grab other countries' land and sea territories.