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To: TimF who wrote (161245)	4/30/2005 5:29:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Japan was trying to prevent the British Empire from surrounding them. By WWII the British Empire wasn't really an expanding force.> The Japanese expansion was long before WWII. It was in Taiwan in the 19th century. It was into Korea and into China long before. My grandparents left China in 1923 because it was all getting too hot. The British Empire was fully ascendant in the first couple of decades of the 20th century. Japan would obviously have been interested in countervailing force. Imagine if the USSR tried to locate forces in Cuba. The USA would get nervous and do something about it, militarily if necessary. Oh, hang on, they did! <The USA is happily building a large-scale co-prosperity sphere No it isn't. "Co-prosperity sphere" was another term for empire. The US is not engaged in imperial conquest.> Mercantilism and imperial conquest are flip sides of the same coin. As you say, Japan's empire and the USA empire are qualitatively different, but the outcome is much the same. The USA empire is relatively benign and I'm on board, gung ho for a lot more development. I have got business in China, India, Japan, Korea - heck, I'm right back where my grandfather was 100 years ago, when he was in business in China, and the British Empire stretched across the world. The difference is that I use the USA and he used Britain. We deliver investment, technology, know how and get cash flow back upstream. The locals get economic development and the fruits of the 21st century cyberspace revolution. Back in grandfather's day, they got the fruits of the industrial revolution. Unfortunately for them, destructive political ideologies resulted in vast destruction, civil war, invasion, socialism, repression and confiscation. Maybe this time things will be better. Unfortunately, Hu Jintao is planning war with Taiwan, and Japan, South Korea, USA and anyone else who supports the good things in life - aka freedom/self-determination. Mqurice