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Great warships. the chinese love to use navys as vessels, chinese fishermen could lay claim to a rock that japan could try to intercept. you could have tit for tat that could erupt. asian countries like to strike poses but it could escalate into something where neither side could pull back and you can have whats been forecast short, sharp war. >> and you can imagine some crisis and then neither side, the chinese nor the japanese, can back down because they cant appear weak to their publics. >> a...

States domination of the western hemisphere. >> then you have the east china seas which is the area between china and japan, basically. >> yes. >> to me this is the most dangerous because it involves two very big, rich countries, the second and third largest economies in the world. and countries with huge defense budgets. we saw one version of what could happen. a ship captain takes his boat into these waters. play out for us what you think could happen. >> the east china sea is a more acute pro...

Welcome. >> thank you. >> is it making sense to look at all this and particularly the east china seas? >> yes, but it doesnts quito war, it equates to a more complicated world, fifth generation fighter jets that can easily create incidents that in turn could enable a crisis. in other words, this is a region thats going to be on the boil for years and years to come. >> there you can see the countries were talking about, japan, china, the two richest countries in asia, but next to it lots of small...

One backs down. they start following a bigger society, and the people running these societies figure out that the only way of holding power is by driving down the rates of violence and violent death. you want to get up and plow your fields, pay your taxes and so on. you dont want angry subjects killing each other. >> so there were about 500 states in europe all quarrelling with each other and going off to war. and in a strange sense, many subdued the level of violence because now there were only...