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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (108652)7/29/2003 6:54:47 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Well, okay, Hu is representing the interests of China's people and that makes China a strategic competitor in some ways. But a bit like an airline's aircrew are strategic competitors of the shareholders and the engineering staff, each seeking a bigger share of the pie, all of them are dependent on the airline continuing to stay aloft.

It's a share bargaining strategic competition China and the USA are involved in. There's no winner takes all position. It's not an old-time 19th century territorial zero-sum competition. It's an integrated process. "Strategic competitor" is too harsh and negative for my liking.

On the value of noocular weapons, it's true that being armed and prepared to defeat thugocratic regimes is still a necessary part of life. My point is that running the show on that basis is absurd. With the right political framework, the need for bulk militarism goes away.

Just as the USA has many self-running states and they don't each maintain peace with neighbours by military means, let alone nukes, but by way of a federal constitution, so the world can run in such a way, though less integrated for now.

Yes, some megalomaniac people are really horrible and must be stopped [whether Washington sniper or Stalin level mass murder]. But if circumstances are kept sound, they don't get a following sufficient to cause major mayhem. Certainly not enough to need nuking to stop them.

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