RE:Do not apologize
by dip dutt on Aug 25, 2007 11:22 AM
Very fair point by Minto. The key question is: What is the objective? -To be a prosperous nation or to be an economic military superpower.. I have problems with niether..
But if the goal is to be a superpower, you can't become one by being a stooge to either USA or China. To follow your specific example, Japan is a puppet nation which is not a superpower and with every passing day losing to China, be it economy or the Olympics. There used to be a time when Japan was the undisputed leader in the Asian Games...Gone are those days.. Japan's economy fluctuates with the US. I was reading an article on how US subprime market could hurt Japanese economy. On the other hand only 3% of China's banking sector depends on US subprime market and hence is insulated.
Even in the days of the USSR, China was never USSR's stooge.
To give an analogy from our day to day life, if you play stooge to your manager, you will always be #2, until he retires/moves. You should try to outsmart/outdo him if you want the position. I do not see America retiring and relinquishing its supremacy.. So the only way to create another pole is by cooperating and competing at the same time, which is exactly the outline of the Sino-US relationship,
