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To: Bill who wrote (721)	8/8/1998 4:45:00 PM
From: brian h	Respond to of 880

Bill and Jlallen, I highly recommended you guys read his entire speech. He knows what he is doing. Excerpts from Dr. Henry Kissinger's speech, You can read it entirely from this link: ashland.edu Excerpts: "Now let me say a few words about China. China is a country which has its own momentum. And I can illustrate this by a number of examples. If you ask an American or European when something happened, he gives you a date. When you ask a Chinese when something happens, he gives you a dynasty. There have been fourteen dynasties in the history of China. Ten of which has lasted longer than the entire history of the United States. So the best you do when they give you a dynasty, is now you are within 200 years of when something happened. That's a different rhythm of thinking. When I met Mao Tse Tung, he told me a story that an American couldn't tell. He said when he met ?the Romanians sent a leader to Beijing to settle their differences with China, settle Soviet differences with China, Mao said we'll fight them for 5,000 years, no sense arguing with them. So the Romanian complained. He said, "Okay I'll make a concession to you. We'll fight them for 4,000 years." So the Romanian still complained, so he gave him another 1,000 years. And when the Romanian still continued, he said, "I've made by last concession." So this is a mentality that is different. When you travel in China, you rarely come to a province that is not larger than the largest European country. So, you're dealing here with a billion plus people with a different sense of history. A totally different sense of proper organization of a country. We believe that everybody's idea is as good as everybody else. On the whole, the Chinese people believe that the smart people should govern and the others should obey. That's Confucianism. That's how they've been brought up. So, I mention these things for the following reasons. What do we want from China? What I want from China is peace in Asia. Undertaking the reform of China as a major American enterprise will get us forever into the bogs of Asia. Where we can use our influence, we should of course do it. But, fundamentally, if we declare China as our principal enemy, we're in for a long, long struggle. And all I ask is that before we start it, we define what we are trying to accomplish. Asia is different from Europe. In Europe we are dealing with a group of societies among which war is out of the question under present conditions. In Europe and the Western Hemisphere, we can practice cooperation and democratic virtues. In Asia we have a security problem. The relation of the Asian nations to each other is like that of the European nations to each other in the 19th century. They think of each other as strategic opponents. We as Americans have a huge advantage which is that their quarrels with each other are bigger than their quarrels with us. So, there's a Russian story where somebody says, "Will you help this guy? He's stuck up to his ankles in the mud." "If he's stuck up to his ankles in the mud, why are you so excited?" He said, "Well, he dived in head first." That's what we have to avoid in Asia. We have a good advantage in that we can have relations with each of these countries. We have to prevent that all of Asia unites against us. If that happens, we'll have a problem. And we can do that better from a posture of flexibility. Now I say all of this because it's easy to say that we've got to have another enemy, we've got to smash another country. Russia was a different problem. The Soviet Union had a corrupt economy and a corrupt leadership. China is moving at a different pace. And in Asia, we will see a more nationalistic Japan, a growing India, a growing Southeast Asia. Those are the realities." Brian H.