On 2 Apr 2003 at 23:52, John D. Giorgis wrote: > US to fuel their economic growth and prevent the economic collapse > that might spell the end of the Communist Party there. Russia,
> reconciliation with the West, not opposition. Moreover, Russia is a > dying country of declining population and a vast, underpopulated and > resource-rich territory right on China's border, which it has long > suspected that the Chinese have strategic ambitions for. > As for the rest of your proposed coalition, the Malaysian regime is > founded upon the principle of oppressing their ethnic-Chinese majority > in favor of their ethnic-Malay minority. The Chinese and Malaysians > simply hate each other, and indeed have an ongoing territorial dispute > in the Spratly's. In the near and mid-terms, the odds of a To me those are telling words. Yes, China is currently reliant on trade. Currently has border disputes with countries which repress a chinese minority. And have long borders with an underpopulated resource-rich country. That's precisely WHY I'm afraid they'll turn expansionist. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
