Summary
After the Pearl Harbor catastrophe, a sardonic joke made the rounds: "Well, we did get the Third Avenue El back!" The dismantled elevated railroad along Manhattan's Upper East Side had been sold as scrap to Japan - and to Tokyo's burgeoning armaments industries that armed and equipped the attackers.
It has long been argued that thriving commercial relations ultimately produce mutual understanding between states, preventing wars. The most obvious refutation of this idea is France and the German states, Europe's most interlocked economies that went to war once a generation for 1,000 years. It was in part escalating trade friction that led a stubbornly isolationist United States into the clash with Japan and brought the country into World War II.See the full content of this document
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Increasing Unease Over China's 'Peaceful Rise'
By contrast, Washington has generally accepted at face value Beijing's affirmations that it was entering the global economic arena cautiously and with benign intent. A more suspicious approach from the United States, it ...
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