>>>Secondly, I guess that relations with China are now to be reevaluated, since they have to be awfully close to parity already and can get there awfully quickly if they set their mind to it.
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>>This was from 2 weeks ago :
>>http://globalresearch.ca/articles/PLE209A.html
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>Interesting article, Len.
>The truly odd thing about this "policy" is that there is nary a peep about it on CNN or the U.S. network news shows and no statements by any members of the U.S. Congress! The "policy" was enunciated and there has been no discussion since (at least that I have seen on TV or by elected officials).
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>I guess that the Republicans feel that they did better (electorally) under the cold war and so now are creating a replacement for it.
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>cheers (not)

Dan Pesh is a typical 'progressive thinker' with a vivid imagination and lots of bogus statistics. As he plays musical chairs with directorates of one 'think tank' or another, in a constant whirle of alphabet soup organizations consistant in their extreme left wing politics but mainly desgined to give more weight to their opinions than is deserved, he occasionally, like a stopped clock, gets it right. Here is his good stuff:
http://www.progress.org/archive/energy07.htm
JLK