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To: FaultLine who wrote (96228)	4/25/2003 12:31:03 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Ken, I notice a bit of greying at the temples of this "young" China. They have been chastened by the Sars debacle and now by the NKoreans. They are getting their first test at being a great power and we should give them our support and help if needed. More transparency re: Sars. More active use of their new great power status vis a vis NK. As part of the ultimate deal however, we should be prepared to exit the Korean Peninula. Our troops need to leave, even if gradually. The security of SK and Japan will now be tied as much to china as to the US. We can be a Pacific power again and the ally of last resort. And we must be prepared to accept an Asian solution to the problem which will initially leave Kim in power. First goals in NK for both US and China should be to eliminate nukes and to eliminate starvation. They are equal in importance. Cant have a starving country with nukes. I would rather feed them than have them out there as a mad dog regime. I have said all along that there are regional power considerations that make this the antithesis of Iraq in terms of the need for the use of US power. We need to accept that, even welcome it. Cold war is over with Russia and even though there was no regime change in china, the old days are over there as well. China matures and we need to back off some--a lesson parents understand. And if Yiwu is reading this, I understand china is a far older civilization. I use the word young in the sense that the current china is only 55 years old or so and has matured or needs to mature much from its revolutionary days. mike