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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: michael97123 who wrote (159780)3/29/2005 2:05:48 PM
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Chinese economic growth has created a vortex of resource use that is sustainable only if China can secure resources from other countries -- just as we are dependent on other countries for strategic resources such as oil. Chinese foreign policy is driven as much as anything else by the need to gain secure access to resources. Our involvement in Iraq serves that purpose for us -- although arguably it has not served us well. Rather than invade other countries, China has gone the "make friends" route -- a far more effective approach and one we used to use. Our "threaten them into submission" approach has burned many of our old bridges and leaves the field open to China -- our loss is their gain in this case. Our approach is short term and ideological, theirs is long term and practical. We will only know the price of these mis-steps on our part in the long run.
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