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2008-07-01 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by tipper 2008-07-01 08:48|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 China has fundamental political and cultural structural problems which makes its future variable. Everyone is talking about it as an super Asians economic tiger [along the lines of Japan and S.Korea]. It's just as likely to peak and then slide like Mexico with a small prosperous ethnic Han caste owning, operating, and exploiting the place for their own power and privileges, that in the end saps the vitality and energies of its people. Unfortunately for the caste and the region, they don't have a border with the US to unload their unwanted and discontented.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-07-01 10:12|| 2008-07-01 10:12|| Front Page Top

#2 It's also possible to divide into competing factions (warlords) as has happened a number of times in the past.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-07-01 14:18|| 2008-07-01 14:18|| Front Page Top

#3 WAFF.com > US Think Tank believes US needs to be involved in Asia becuz, AS CHINA CONTINS TO MODERNIZE, IT IS PERCEIVED AS INEVITABLY BECOMING DESIROUS OF NATIONAL/STATE EXPANSION AND WILL LIKELY DO SO PRIMARILY + FIRSTLY AGZ RUSSIA, + TO LESSER EXTENT JAPAN + ASIAN REGIONS.

IOW, RUSSIA is facing:
(1) NUCLEAR ISLAMISM includ NUCLEAR TERRORISM in NEAR-TERM; and
(2) EXPANSION-CENTRIC NUCLEAR + STRONG CHINA IN LONG TERM.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-01 19:22|| 2008-07-01 19:22|| Front Page Top

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