The neocon weekly Foreign Policy for Sept. 21 carried a report by its Pentagon/defense and National Security/diplomacy correspondents entitled “State Department Plans `China House’ To Counter Beijing.” They report that “the U.S. State Department is planning to expand the number of officials dedicated to monitoring China, a bid to track Beijing’s growing footprint in key countries around the world,” including adding 20-30 staff members, some of them “regional China Watch” officers in embassies around the world. The plan may include still more personnel being detailed to monitor China’s technological development and acquisitions.
The Defense Department has recently done the same thing, called a “China Hub” policy, according to Foreign Policy. The State Department action “follows a move at the U.S. Defense Department to create a central hub to handle Washington and Beijing’s military relationship.”
