The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
China will be the answer to Japan's problems.
In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.
Asia has a great future; we here in the Philippines will benefit from this Asian prosperity.
I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.
If we don't get our relationship with the emerging People's Republic of China right, that is something that could lead to global catastrophe.
The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.
We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.
The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.
You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.
China and the Asian territory is an incredible opportunity. We spend a lot of time looking at it, looking for the right partners.
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