No. of Recommendations: 2
I have family, friends, ex work colleaugues and neighbours in just about every western country and a few in asia as well... we have not always seen eye to eye ....but the US has definately burned trust. The "ass kissing " line, sent the last hold outs over the edge....
I'm not interested in short-term emotional reactions. Nation-states - serious ones, anyway - don't run like that. All that matters is long strategic alignment.
al's comment about 80 years of good will? Okay. I'll see that and raise with 3 or 4 hundred years of cultural conflicts in the Pacific Rim between China, Vietnam, The Philippines, Japan and Korea.
