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To: badon518 who wrote (5180)6/1/2000 10:04:00 AM
From: manohar kanuri  Read Replies (1) of 6020
 
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If I may add my .02 to your observations:
A couple of decades ago the foreign policy establishment subsumed a dichotomy between the national security mandarins and business lobbies; with the mandarins routinely having the final word when the two interests diverged. No matter what the party affiliation of the Oval Office incumbent (or the composition of Congress), post-Gorbachev the equilibrium has consistently been derived from commercial interests alone; the elevation of economic interests to an overarching national security concern only serving to make the task of appealing to national greed (as opposed to pandering to national paranoia) that much simpler. In the early/mid-90s, I remember reading a particularly telling (by hindsight) commentary on China and the emergence of the Chinese sense of self (confident, assertive) in the international arena. I don't recall now who was being quoted but it was a line from a poem called "China" that defined then and, imo, continues to describe now and for the next few years, Sino-US relations:

"We live on the third world from the sun. Number three. Nobody tells us what to do."

Of course, the times, they change, and now they're number two.
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