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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (161282)	5/2/2005 12:14:19 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

China was invaded by Japan in 1931. "Manchukuo" was set up and then things setled down until Japan invaded the rest of China in 1937. The British empire was not an expanding power in the 1930s, and it was no serious threat to Japan. Mercantilism and imperial conquest are flip sides of the same coin. Mercantilism might provide the reasons for imperial conquest but they are two different things. In any case the US's trade policy is not mercantilism. but the outcome is much the same. The outcome isn't even vaguely similar, except perhaps in Iraq, and even then it isn't the same. Tim