Obama in Australia with the Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
HuffingtonPost by Christopher Bodeen (excerpts):  While Beijing's public response to President Barack Obama's more muscular China policy has been muted, behind the scenes the US President's sudden moves to contest rising Chinese power are setting the Capital on edge.  During his ongoing nine-day swing through the Pacific-Asia region, Obama has already unveiled a plan for an expanded US Marines presence in Australia, advocated a new free trade area that leaves China out, and called on Beijing not to buck the current world order.  The Beijing government is trying to understand the shift, tasking academic experts to review the initiatives and submit options on how to respond.  "The US is overreacting," said Zhu Feng, an international relations expert at Peking University, who was asked to study Washington's moves and make recommendations. He said the government may feel bewildered by the Obama initiatives.  Meanwhile, state media are warning of a new US containment strategy.  Obama is also pushing for the rapid expansion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a US backed free trade agreement that so far has drawn mostly smaller countries.  Japan and Canada have expressed interest in joining, while Beijing has been left out.  A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman called it natural for the US and Australia to improve relations, just as China wants to do with each, but said such "improvements should take into consideration the interests of other countries."  

Yu Wanli of Peking University's School of International Studies said many Chinese would likely view Obama's new posture as a betrayal of that professed partnership and that could narrow Beijing's options, forcing a tougher response.  "Public opinion may put the Chinese government in an embarrassing situation," said Yu, who specializes in US-China relations.  A reliably nationalistic media that pander to the Chinese sense of patriotism and deep-seated suspicion of the US have already sounded the alarm.  The Global Times, a tabloid owned by the Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper hit hard on the theme of besiegement.  It quoted a People's Liberation Army major general as saying that the expanded US training and deployment base in Australia was one of a series of US installations to "encircle China from the north to the south of the Asia-Pacific region."  In a separate article entitled "Six ways of countering the eastward movement of American strategy," the Global Times alleged the US was seeking to weaken China by nurturing hostile forces within the country, while wreaking Beijing's relations with its neighbors.  It suggested Beijing reduce its massive purchases of US government debt - which have helped keep US interest rates low - to get Washington to stop meddling in the South China Sea, where China is asserting claims to islands, reefs, atolls contested by five other governments.  "As long as we stick to our guns, time will be on our side," it said.  
Associated Press writers Charles Hutzler and Alexa Olesen in Beijing contributed to this report.  

Commentary:  It isn't wise to Antagonize a nation that holds about 1 trillion dollars of your national debt, and which you trade intricately with.  Obama knows this, but if he can't further bankrupt America with his recent fury of spending, because the House would not allow it, it seems he will instigate our largest debt holder into making a much greater dent in our economic crisis.  He recently suggested that China "grow up" and act responsibly; he was also quoted as saying, "The notion that we fear China is mistaken;" he went on to say that he "will speak candidly to Beijing about upholding human rights."  At the same time, Obama is bringing Muslims into the US by the tens of thousands (80,000+) and he has sent 700 billion dollars to help beautify mosques in the Middle East, while the Muslims over there are beheading people, chopping peoples limbs off, stoning people, killing women in the name of "family honor," and burning churches and their parishioners alive in the name of Allah!  Even though China has definite problems, Obama is not the one to say anything about their "human rights" issues.  He has effectively "drawn a line in the sand" with China and antagonized them openly without provocation.  China has been communist China for decades; why the ruckus against them now?  Knowing the consequences, it would appear to be his socialist agenda underneath the surface.  "These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts and their mouths speak great swelling words, having the admiration of men because of advantage" Jude 1:16.  As irrational and irritating Obama's moves are (not that he would send troops to Australia, but that he would deliberately and openly antagonize China in this way), they are actually prophetic.  Jesus said that these will be the signs of His return in the last days:  "Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines, pestilences and earthquakes in various places" Matthew 24:7.