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Thinking about China

June 30, 2008 - 10:58 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Jrod
2008-07-01 06:56:41

“The closer the trade relationship and economies are intertwined, the less incentive there is to go to war.”

Not exactly. It’s the expectation of future trade that moderates the incentives for war, that is if one believes that trade is a deterrent to war in the first place.