US airs fears on RP’s alliance shift to China — WikiLeaks By Michaela P. del Callar 12/09/2010

US airs fears on RP’s alliance shift to China — WikiLeaks

By Michaela P. del Callar

12/09/2010

The United States has warned that China might exert economic pressure on Washington’s South East Asian allies, including the Philippines, forcing them to shift their alliance to Beijing, according to online whistle-blower WikiLeaks.

This information is contained in one of the more than 250,000 classified US State Department documents divulged by the controversial Web site.

As of Wednesday, 1,060 of 251,287 secret and confidential diplomatic documents can be viewed online at WikiLeaks Web site and updates are being made daily even as its founder Julian Assange surrendered to British police in London last Tuesday in relation to a Swedish sex-crimes investigation against him. He is now detained in a prison although the British police never divulge at which prison a detainee is.

A confidential cable from the US Embassy in Beijing dated Jan. 6, 2009 details an assessment and overview by American Ambassador to China Clark T. Randt of Washington’s 30 years of bilateral relations with China. It was made public by WikiLeaks on Dec. 4.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101209hed3.html