A unified Asia...America fear!

I have thought about this for a long time. What if the countries of Asia (China, Japan, both Koreas, Vietnam, Phillipines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Laos, Cambodia, Mongolia, and Indonesia) someday decided to patch up their differences up and united in some economic pact just like the EU? Or ultimately a became a super state? I know that many of these countries have differences with each other and disputes still yet to be settled but when it comes right down to it, they really more in common than they would admit from a cultural and historical standpoint. They would have so much to gain from a pact even those impoverished nations. The US and the EU would have some heavy competition from a Asian Union.

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John

...And who'd have thought we'd ever see France and Germany on the same side? Or for that matter, Britain and France - We've been trying to wipe each other out, on and off, for over a thousand years, but If I felt the urge I could take a five minute walk to the railway station now (10:45) and be in Paris for lunch. A unified Asia would take some serious diplomacy, but could be done in about 20 years, at a push... :scared:

America is going to fall as top dog and EU and Asia will move up. I think they feel it will be like 35 to 50 years before it is in place.If you ask me where I have read that I can not tell you as I read every thing and you get hints here and there or one man states this or that. I read Cato(??) some times and international stuff that pops up. But I swear I get this from reading all over this PC.

U.S. corporations have leverage against both the E.U. and a unified Asian confederation. The U.S. could chose how much (or little) fuel to sell and for how much in order to control the latters' growth and competition. Win-win situation.

Murka's businessmen have a concern over China that it is using 8% of the world's daily resources. Meanwhile, the US uses something like 26%! Which is very odd as China makes most of the products America consumes.

The US is acting like the bully toddler in the sandbox. It wants everything - an increasingly impossible situation.

I see nothing even remotely win-win in the near future, even if the rest of the world did continue to support the US.

Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. Quite half the posters had the wrong faces on them. Clearly the agents of Goldstein had been at work...

Eastasia only emerged as a distinct unit after another decade of confused fighting...

US, UK, Australia = Oceania
France, Germany, Russia = Eurasia
countries named above = Eastasia

Are we there yet? :scared:

Despite modeling their industries on Japan, Korea (both of them) still hates Japan over the occupation of the peninsula during the first half of the 20th century. China still brings up WW2 with Japan often. Additionally, each large economic and military power would try to outdo the other for leadership. I don't see it happening any time soon.