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To: kumar who wrote (2396)	7/16/2007 10:16:42 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

Most of my experience has been in Japan, China, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia. I learned that Asia is not exactly a unified place, despite some cross-cutting cultural values. China in particular has developed a very robust foreign policy and done very well with it. If you take Taiwan as an example, their view is so far from ours that one wonders how we relate to each other at all. In broader terms, China is concerned about its own economic growth and political stability. Its foreign policy clearly reflects these dominant issues. They have been running around locking up long term contracts for resources -- it is far cheaper and more effective than invading other countries and trying to run them from a foreign 'embassy' as we have done in the Green Zone. We collide with China over oil, as much as anything else, only they have found a way to get what they need -- we seem intent on carrying a big gun and firing it at ourselves.