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To: Katelew who wrote (126125)12/2/2009 8:06:06 PM
From: cosmicforce  Respond to of 543319
 
<success is possible>

We had slightly different thoughts...

Perhaps "presence is unavoidable" perhaps due to concerns about becoming a Silk Road for illegal nukes or quid pro quo to China for them holding our dollar. The Chinese have a very tenuous hold on the western provinces. We tend to think of them as monolithic. They have the same tribal history as the ME does.