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In This Issue     Feature: Asia Letter: ChinaPan Evolves   The Awkward, Dangerous Stage of Mercantilist Development The Peaceful Rise of China? Inner Space Operation Tomodachi, Continued Close Enough for Government Work  About the Author   Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links   In Other House News   SNS Positions Open How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where's Mark?

By Eric Grant*

   SNS Asia Correspondent [Tokyo]

 

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Registration is now open for the 7th Annual SNS Predictions Dinner, December 8, 2011, at New York's historic Waldorf=Astoria Hotel:

 

www.stratnews.com/newyork/2011

 

---featuring a Centerpiece Conversation with member:

 

Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, on the subject:

 

"How Intellectual Property Drives the Global Economy."

 

Those of you who have been tuned into Secretary Clinton's comments on IP and China will want to talk with Bob and get his personal read on their recent travels to China.

 

We will ALSO have an additional (returning) special guest with us:

 

Richard Marshall, Director of Global Cyber Security Management, Department of Homeland Security, to help us continue our conversation on security.

 

If you'd like to be more involved in this event as one of our select sponsors, please contact Sharon at: sam@stratnews.com or 435-649-3645.

 

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Publisher's Note: China's first diplomatic response, since the advent of its "Going Out" campaign, to the ASEAN and APEC trade associations could have been called "divide and conquer." Rather than join the existing groups and trade agreements, China chose to strike individual trade deals with every important member.

 

Today, as our Editor notes, China and Japan together are pushing for new mutual free-trade agreements perhaps unlikely to include the U.S. even as they jockey for money and power wherever they meet.

 

Once again, our Asia Editor has brought us an on-the-ground look at the world from a Tokyo-based, post-tsunami perspective. I expect all of our members will find the results of this view to be useful and, to some degree, surprising. mra.

 

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