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Article: Analysis: Containing the United States-I.
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- March 17, 2003
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SKOPJE, Macedonia, Mar 17, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX)
European intellectuals yearn for the mutually exclusive: a United States contained and a regime-changed Iraq. The Chinese are more pragmatic -- though, bound by what is left of their Marxism, they still ascribe U.S. behavior to the irreconcilable contradictions inherent in capitalism.
The United States is impelled by its economy and values to world dominion, claimed last week an analysis titled "American Empire Steps Up Fourth Expansion" in the communist party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal theme" in American history and a "main line" running through its ...