While the U.S. defense posture is shifting away from the Middle East toward Asia, so is the perspective of another country – Iran, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The U.S. shift to Asia is largely due to China’s growing assertiveness in the region and its confrontational posture in insisting that the East and South China Seas are in its area of influence and all of its neighbors and foreign military forces are to stay out.
This would include other countries’ efforts to acquire energy resources from the mineral-rich East and South China Seas, which also has brought India in the fray, given its demands as a developing nation and existing contracts it has to mine these resources in the region with Vietnam.
The United States has supported these countries’ rights to mine these energy resources while it insists on the right of navigation and passage for its warships in the East and South China Seas – despite Beijing’s insistence that it will not tolerate such a presence.
Iran, however, is quickly shifting to Asia as a result of U.S. and European Union sanctions over its nuclear program, and has found the waters welcoming.
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