There are six Chinese Economic and political objectives which was mentioned by Brzezinski: 1. To reduce the dangers inherent in China's potential geographical encirclement, due to: the US security links with Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines; the vulnerability to interdiction of China's maritime access into the Indian Ocean through the Strait of Malacca and thence to the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and so on; and the absence of available Economically sustainable land routes for trade with Europe through the vast distances of Russia and Central Asia; 2. To establish for itself a favored position in an emerging East Asian community (which could include a China-JapanSouth Korea free trade zone) and likewise in the already existing ASEAN, while containing-though not yet excluding-a major US presence or role in them; 3. To consolidate Pakistan as a counterweight to India and to gain through it a more proximate and safer access to the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf; 4. To gain a significant edge over Russia in economic influence in Central Asia and Mongolia, thereby satisfying in part China's needs for natural resources also in areas closer to China than Africa or Latin America; 5. To resolve in China's favor the remaining unsettled legacy of its civil war Taiwan-in keeping with Deng's formula (first enunciated publicly to the Chinese media in the course of a visit to him by this writer) of "one China, two systems"; 6. To establish for itself a favored economic, and indirectly political, presence in a number of Middle Eastern, African, and Latin American countries, thereby securing stable access to raw materials, minerals, agricultural products, and energy-while simultaneously securing a dominant position in local markets for China's competitively priced manufactured products, and, in the process, thereby gaining a global political constituency on China's behalf.
