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Robert Ellsworth, Andrew Goodpaster, and Rita Hauser, Co-Chairs.…
Robert Ellsworth, Andrew Goodpaster, and Rita Hauser, Co-Chairs. “America's National Interests: A Report from the Commission on America's National Interests.” July 2000. Read pages 24-25 (East Asia) and 40-42 (WMD).
What are America's National Interests today? p. 20 (not required, but interesting)
- Prevent, deter, and reduce the threat of CBRN weapon attacks on the US or its military abroad (security)
- Ensure US allies' survival and their active cooperation with the US In shaping and international system in which we can thrive (stable world order)
- Prevent the emergence of hostile major powers or failed states on US borders (security)
- Ensure the viability and stability of major global systems (trade, financial markets, supplies of energy, the environment) (stable world order)
- Establish productive relations, consistent with American national interests with nations that could become strategic adversaries, China and Russia. (security)
China, Japan, and East Asia (p. 24-25).
- That the US establish productive relations with China, America's major potential strategic adversary in the East Asia
- South Korea and Japan must survive as independent, free states
- Maintain peace in Taiwan Straits and Korean peninsula
- That China and Japan achieve lasting reconciliation that is beneficial to the US
- That East Asian countries, including China, continue on a path towards democracy and free markets
- That East Asian markets grow more open to US goods
- That a peaceful resolution is achieved in secondary territorial disputes in South China Seas or Senkaku islands
The analysis does not accurately describe outcomes in East Asia... particularly the phrase: "China's rise to power is happening at a manageable pace."
Greatest threat to the US is from outbreak of localized wars in either the Taiwan Strait or Korean peninsula.
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The US is highly secure from conventional attack, only WMD are a powerful way to strike at US cities/homeland. Strength of US conventional forces ensure they are only susceptible to WMD attack. p. 40.
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North Korea is a unique case. Agreed Framework of 1994 "froze" development to allow civilian nuclear reactors to develop... has led to DPRK brinkmanship (p. 42.)