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...Philippines - were used to counting on an American big brother for everything from economic sustenance to military security. Now there's a new top dog in town: China. Last year, Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada proclaimed that this "will be the age of Asia and in that context it is important for Japan to have its own stance, to play its own role in the region" - a role separate from that of the U.S. It's no coincidence that such a sentiment was expressed precisely as China had overtaken the U.S. as Japan's largest trading partner...
...Here are the realities,’” Faust said. “Now let’s work for a common solution because we all share a desire to have this be the most wonderful community and the best set of neighbor relations and the best context for all of us to live together, because we’re going to live together for the next however many centuries...
...Undergrads don’t often get to talk about sex in a religious context,” said the Reverend Jonathan C. Page, one of the program’s organizers and the Epps Fellow in Memorial Church. “Marriage is an important part of that discussion...
...think craftsmanship fits into the context of a major university like Harvard? What role should artistic training play in education...
What role is there for the U.S. to play in this context? Since the U.S. has prioritized stabilizing Afghanistan over everything else in Asia, it has lost a lot of credit in both Delhi and Beijing. It is increasingly reliant on China, but has also undertaken security exercises [under the Bush Administration] that tried to work together with democratic countries like Japan, India and Australia at the exclusion of China. This fed into the traditional political claustrophobia many in China have - a sense that, in the end, Asia will be a very hostile environment for their development and geopolitical rise...