China is greater miltary power said Mike Mullen

China today is a different country than it was 10 years ago,”Admiral Mike Mullen on Sunday as he began his four-day farewell visit to Beijing. “It is no longer a rising power. It has, in fact, arrived as a world power.”
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, like many American officials before him, was flattering his Chinese hosts so that they would think they have a stake in maintaining the current international system. It was no surprise, therefore, that Mullen also his audience at Renmin University that China’s “greater military power” meant that China also had “greater responsibility.” 
The remarks of the outgoing admiral echoed those of Robert Zoellick, when he was deputy secretary of state during the previous administration, that the United States saw China as a “responsible stakeholder” in the international community. In 2005, as in 2011, there is an almost-desperate need in Washington to believe that American officials, through hortatory words, can persuade authoritarian Chinese leaders to accept a liberal international system they had no hand in creating.
Washington’s rhetoric, unfortunately, feeds China’s sense of self-importance, making Beijing only harder to deal with. Admiral Mullen has obviously failed to learn anything from the successive failures of the Obama administration’s China policies.
The president, from his first days in office, hoped to establish cooperative relations with Beijing. In February 2009, for instance, Secretary of State Clinton famously said human rights were not central to American relations with China and she could not let them interfere with more important matters.
Clinton obviously thought Chinese leaders would reciprocate her friendly gesture, but she was wrong. They were, according to one Beijing-based analyst, “ecstatic” because her comment confirmed in their minds that America “had finally succumbed to a full kowtow” to China.
The failure to understand China soon had consequences. In the following month, Chinese military planes and naval and civilian craft interfered with the Impeccable and the Victorious, two unarmed US Navy reconnaissance vessels, in international waters in the South China and Yellow Seas.
To avoid unpleasantness, Washington in April sent its top naval officer and a destroyer to participate in celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese navy. That show of friendship also proved to be a mistake. In May, the Chinese again harassed the Victorious.  
The administration did not learn from its early mistakes. In November 2009, days before President Obama’s trip to Beijing, Jeffrey Bader publicly said the United States could not solve any of the world’s great problems without China’s cooperation.
Bader, then the top Asia hand on the National Security Council, essentially gave Beijing a veto over American policy, and the Chinese immediately took advantage of the new president. Obama’s trip to China, during which he bowed to even low-ranking officials, turned out to be a disaster, marking the beginning of a period of Chinese belligerence that continues to this day.
Which is why the outgoing Mullen is pleading with the Chinese to be nice. When Beijing’s flag officers and senior colonels publicly talk about waging war on the United States—as they last February—the proper response is not to tell China’s officials how powerful they are. The proper response is to tell them in public that they must adhere to accepted standards of conduct—or face consequences.
Unfortunately, there is no other way to deal with belligerent regimes.