Yes, isn't it ironic that we will probably have to sweet talk the timid Japanese into starting up a great east Asia co-prosperity sphere. The alternative could be worse. The Japanese could have a collective nervous breakdown and go into isolation from the rest of the world for a few hundred years. Ushering in a new dark age.
I'm no foreign affairs expert,
Tom L.
Dennis R Redmond wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
>
> > economic order. Tokyo has no desire to become another London after the
> > Big Bang and Asia does not want to become like Latin America.
> > The sooner American policy makers accept and deal with this serious
> > communication and conceptual gap, the sooner the dialogue will be on
> > track for real solutions.
>
> OK, but then why are the Japanese not acting like the superpower they
> indeed are? They've certainly got the cash and connections to rescue
> themselves, not to mention Asia. Why doesn't Japan just set up its own
> Pacific Development Bank or something and tell the US and IMF to go to
> hell? Japan doesn't need US capital, but the US sure as heck needs
> Japanese capital, right? Or is it just that Japan is just
> beginning to figure out that they (along with the EU) won the Cold War?
>
> -- Dennis