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United states is deployed in the pacific. the chinese officials have said to me, look, you've come from half a world away with your navy. that makes you a hegemonic power, but these are our own seas, we're just protecting our own. but the united states would say, wait a minute, we're a pacific power too. we fought world war ii in the pacific, we fought vietnam, korea, we've been supporting the philippines sin 1899, we're destined to be a pacific power. so the different points of view of the united states and chooin are geographical points of view. >> the book is "asia's caldron." thanks for be...