2005.5.16=1[#136]:4703.4.9[+#37] [Iraq?] Last day in full preparation, to banks, to o.h., van to airport. 0)China's Geostrategy.

[Out of Iraq?] http://tinyurl.com/dqb4z Fair & mild: 5:05 already ok and up, clean out genkan closet, gather clothes for travel, full bath, breakfast & collect medicines and dental materieals etc., emails then make up last 2 days' blog, Mei was back then just out at 11:50 back to work, after tidy and help me a bit and piano. Lost again from "Draft" of 11:44am. So Mei worked one hour and back from McDonald. Bye, bye at 4:45 drive to 2 banks, then to Yung-ho losing cell phones at restroom, to get papers nearby. Drive to o.h., in a hurry to write checks and phone to pay, quick dinner. Around 10:10pm Hiro shows up, so swiftly move stuff into a small van to airport 11:30 mailing. 5.17(2) 1am = 4pm Taiwan China Airline center 4 seats: mom left end, I right end. 0) China's Geostrategy: ''China's Geostrategy: Playing a Waiting Game'', PINR, Report Drafted By: Dr. Michael A. Weinstein; 07 January 2005: http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=253 "" It is common knowledge that China is the most important ascending world power, and one that has only begun to realize its economic and military potential. Before the World Trade Center bombings on September 11, 2001, neoconservative strategists in Washington identified China as the most significant future threat to U.S. interests and defined the Sino-American relation as one of "strategic competition" rather than "strategic partnership." Although the "war on terrorism" has taken precedence over the longer term conflict with China in Washington's geostrategy, the neoconservatives' pre-9/11 judgment was well founded and remains so. "" "" Conclusion Beijing's white paper on national defense and its application of the geostrategy presented there to holding war games with Moscow indicate realism, rationality and political maturity and sophistication. China's "ruling party" is aware of and forthright about the country's present limitations and has formulated a plausible strategy of "active defense" to overcome them over the next two decades. Active defense means that Beijing will play a waiting game and punch below its weight until the regime feels that it is ready to act more assertively. As it gains strength, Beijing will expand its reach, as it has done in planning joint exercises with Russia. Barring unforeseeable crises that would disturb its progress toward becoming the undisputed regional power center of East and Southeast Asia, Beijing's major problems come from Washington and Tokyo, and from its perceived need to incorporate Taiwan in order to make its East Asian aspirations credible. It is far from certain that Beijing will be able to finesse Washington and Tokyo, and, in the near term, to absorb Taiwan, but time seems to be on its side. ""