October 15, 2012

Asia Knows How to Handle Bigger China

Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg

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The Jakarta Post columnist is right: the U.S. should not engage in the futile and counterproductive task of dividing co- dependent Asian countries into rival camps of friends and enemies.

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