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ASIAN AMERICAN ISSUES
COMING SHIFTS IN PACIFIC POWER BALANCE
f the outcome of the Cold War has shown one thing, it's that economic power begets military power -- and not vice versa.
Today American power is unrivaled, the product of three centuries of unbroken industrial and territorial expansion. A half century ago its sole Pacific rival was Japan, a nation that had begun building an industrial base a mere seven decades earlier. Today Japan is wealthy but stagnant and adrift, its spiritual and political back never having mended after having been shattered by World War II and subsequent occupation.
While not entirely writing off Japan's potential to pose new challenges, the U.S. has begun eyeing China as the next strategic rival.
Barely three decades after China began ditching its centralized command economy for the glories of capitalist wealth, most of its 1.25 billion citizens remain mired in an agrarian subsistence economy. But the 125 million Chinese participating in the industrial economy of the coastal regions have fueled China's drive for superpower status. By 2015 it will match the U.S. in GDP -- then double it by 2025. Militarily China has been a formidable land power since the Corean War. Now the Red Army is acquiring state-of-the-art warplanes, missiles and submarines. It has announced plans to send a man into space by 2005. China's overriding aim is to keep the Pacific from becoming an American pond.
Any shift in the Pacific power balance must also take into account the two Coreas, Taiwan and Russia. At any given time each of these nations are triangulating a course of maximum advantage with reference to the U.S., China and Japan. The precise posture these nations ultimately adopt may well tip the balance.
How will the Pacific power balance shift in the coming decades? What developments will pose the greatest threats to American power?
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Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 06:10:12 PM)
What a shame:
"maybe asians have been reading the protocols of the elder zionists or other antisemitic material just like the white gentiles."
As AC dropout points out, Asians aren't paranoid about Jews. Most simply have no awareness at all and don't care about Jewish issues, because they have their own lives and histories to worry about, which to them are more important. Koreans open Nazi Cafes in Seoul and the Taiwanese use Hitler to sell air conditioners. Jews haven't made any inroads into the media in Asia and don't have influence on educational policies, so there's no immediate reaction to the mention of events like the Holocaust, and WWII brings up memories of Japan. (Kinda like in East Germany where you mention concentration camps and the first thing everyone thinks of is labour/union leaders, not Jews).
But in the US, sure, there will be conflicts, and individuals who feel rightly or wrongly that they are getting screwed will put out conspiracy theories, this always happens when two ethnic groups start competing for limited resources. All the multiculturalist indoctrination in the world can at best mute and redirect this trend, not end it.
Oh by the way, I loved this article from the Jewish Bulletin of Northern California:
http://www.jewishsf.com/bk001117/1bmahjongg.shtml
"'mah jongg is a predominantly Jewish game," according to Unger"
"The Mah Jongg League, based in New York City, comes out with a card annually that is the standard for those playing the game in America."
"easily over 1,000 people in the Bay Area play, probably closer to 2,000."
Bye for now, I gotta go write an article talking about how the Chinese invented bagels.
T.H. Lien
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 08:00:45 (PST)
To what a shame!
The strained relationship between China and the U.S. cannot be resolved if we do not understand the underlying differences that set these two great nations apart. If order to be sincere about finding a solution of peace, we need to be able to discuss and debate issues openly and honestly. For this reason, elections in American are held by secret ballot to permit voters to vote without fear of retribution by the losing candidate. I do not hold it against you if you choose to use a pseudo-name.
In the name of national security following 9/11, our e-mails even using pseudo-names can no longer be assured of privacy from the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. Bit by bit we Americans are losing our rights to privacy and right to freedom of speech, as Americans are engaging in self-censorship. Your rants and raves of ‘anti-Semitism’ and profanity in an attempt to shut up others is wholly un-American and a betrayal of American democratic values.
Throughout this website, a lot of grievances and complaints have been aired. We owe it to ourselves to ponder these grievances and see what it is that we may be doing that offends others. Likewise, the problems leading to the attacks on the WTC on 9/11 can never be resolved if we try to dance around issues because some idiot cries out ‘anti-Semitism!’
True Blue American Patriot
Monday, March 11, 2002 at 20:55:22 (PST)
I couldn't believe it when I saw it. China has decided to publish an offical human rights violaion of the USA. If you did not know USA has been kicked out of the UN human rights committe this year. I guess starting a war does that. But here is China's view of the USA
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-03/11/content_310561.htm
In a nutshell USA:
1) Discrimates against black
2) Uses it military to infringe of the sovereignty of other nations
3) Third world conditions for the poor
4) Largest prison population
5) Castration as a method to reduce sentence for sex offenders
6) Freedom of the press (movies) and Right to bear arm is promoting wonton violence in our society.
Of course the the USA has this to say about China
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eap/8289.htm
It the same Tibet, Minority, Torture, under age workers etc. stuff we see every year.
I just find it ironic that China is now going to use the same tools to discredit the USA on the world stage. Reading both reports, I should move to Canada. This is just too funny. Two country writing offical document on why the other country sucks.
AC Dropout
Monday, March 11, 2002 at 12:30:15 (PST)
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