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Article: Integration processes in Asia and their impact on regional security *.
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- Military Thought
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Emergence of the Regional "Centers of Power"
Some of the students of contemporary East believe that it is the United States and Japan, the main "integrators" of Northeast Asia that "are winding the integration spiral around their own economies." (1)
Today power in America belongs to big business; its team is wielding a geo-economic expansionism doctrine, which means that the United States should appropriate a share of other countries' national incomes; exploit other countries' raw material, financial, and intellectual resources in its aims. (2) The use of military force is allowed: this has been amply confirmed by the U.S. aggression against Iraq, one ...