>>One word from China and this issue would disappear.
>>Ditto with Iran.
>>For the past 40 years China have been giving the rest of the world a primer on the pragmatic use of economic power.
>>Have you seen anyone threatening China lately?
FWIW, NZ was the first Western nation to sign a Free Trade Agreement with China- after being unable to get one with the US for decades. Strong and growing Chinese presence in NZ now. Just saying.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
