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September 5, 2012

What Roosevelt Would Do in South China Sea

Clad & Manning, Financial Times

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To find something new, we might try looking backwards - to a type of split-the-difference US diplomacy last deployed after Russia and Japan had fought a war in 1905. The next year, Theodore Roosevelt brokered a peace that lasted three decades, allowing China, Europe and the US to adjust to Japan’s rise as a major power.

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TAGGED: United States, China, South China Sea, Theodore Roosevelt

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