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Originally posted by khazadman:
as i said in another thread,asia will not unite because the biggest guy on the block,china,is not trusted by any of it's neighbors.
Then what is ASEAN?
Things change. Try to view things with a long term perspective rather than basing long term judgement on things as they are now.
No one thought Rome would fall, or that the Soviet Union would collapse, or that Americans would outnumber British.
The American hegemony will end. Like Spain, Britain, the Ottomans, the Hittites and the Pharoahs, America will have a decline, China will enter a different era. Boundaries will shift, disappear or change entirely in how they are drawn.
"The only thing certain in life is that nothing is certain." (spoken by Confucious I believe)