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Re-read what I wrote I do not have China making a bid for global hegemony, rather Asian Hegemony. China will not in the long term comfortably abide an Asian system that places Japan as a co-equal after the Americans eventually go home. There is simply to much history to forgive when the Japanese haven't even asked for forgiveness in the first place. And thats before economic competition and resource supplies, in this context making statements and taking actions that benefit Japan and reduce China's freedom of action by keeping the US in the area, US arms flowing to Japan, US influence in the area and keeping the Chinese out of the western arms markets as a buyer make zero sense long or short term.
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The one thing wrong with your thesis here is that the rest of Asia has not forgiven Japan either. The US will not go home if for any other reason than to prevent a war between Korea and Japan. Korean hatre of the Japanese surpasses that of the Chinese.
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If China's goal is to keep the US in the area it is better to do it as an ally, where Washington works on behalf of China than in an adversarial role where Washington works on behalf Tokyo, New Delhi and Taipei.
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China and the US will never be allies, just as India and the US also will never be allies. The trust is not there. At best, India will occupy the same position China held during the Cold War but will never agree to American participation nor leadership in her sphere of influence ... and China knows this.
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Great and very sage advice- that seems to have fallen on deaf ears.
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A question for you. We're seeing the end of DXP's momentum. How much further do you expect to see it? Though you are not a China watcher, your impressions of an informed man do give an appraisal of how much more of DXP's legacy that we can expect from China.
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If Chinese leaders had simply walked small and played meek over the last 20 years overall China would be in a much better position to assert itself now then it currently is.
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Exactly why we're seeing the end of the DXP era. Current Chinese leaders do not have his confidence and frankly his balls. He dared the USSR to attack. The current Chinese leaders have to deliver their promises, unlike Deng who promised nothing but dragged China from the 19th Century into the 20th Century and then kicked her butt into the 21st.