While voices in China continue to be raised against American naval exercises near the China coast and asserting Beijing's increased influence in global affairs, other voices are now being heard questioning the wisdom of China's increasing assertiveness.
Maj. Gen. Luo Yuan, in a commentary in the Liberation Army Daily, the official newspaper of the People's Liberation Army, accused the United States of practicing "gunboat diplomacy" by sending "its gunboats to every corner of the world, tyrannizing the weak and extending its security boundaries to others' doorsteps."
Chinese military men continue to rail against the activities of the USS George Washington, which sailed from waters off the Korean Peninsula to Vietnam to take part in joint military exercises there.