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To: h0db who wrote (120733)	11/30/2003 11:22:46 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

<The fact remains that the US is the security guarantor of East Asia; this is not a purely legal distinction, just real politik.> You are 100% correct -- the question is how long this is likely to remain the case? Japan and South Korea as well as China are the key players here, and as we fumble along with North Korea while China emerges as a military power in the region and Japan begins the process of creating its own military capability, we are likely to have less and less of a direct role in the region as time goes on.