It seems so easy to adopt an attitude that there must always be a "we and they" sort of battle going on in the regions of the world. It is quite obviously true that every major world military and economic power has a vested interest in what happens here or there. I would hope that both the U.S. and Chinese Governments would exercise both restraint and wisdom when it comes to the antics that are carried out on the Korean Peninsula, but I also understand the history of mistrust. The United States Government and the multinational corporations have earned the mistrust of most of the rest of the peoples and governments of the world. In Asia, even though China is the dominant economic and military power, they do not have a history of carrying or using a "big stick" in their attempts at diplomacy.
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