So, Obama is really a good person after all. No President was ever anywhere near Ft. Myers when I was living there. So, he comes there right off in his Presidency, just to show everybody that the comeback is going to need help from Floridians. I'm sure you know the Florida Real Estate market has problems. But Obama was there to look into jobs from contracts. And, I suspect that there are some influential people that asked him to come visit right off. Far out!
About Asia and the coming years. Both Thailand and Cambodia are infected with a kind of invective that is not good. Thailand is not a very nice country and is showing no signs of wanting to become better behaved. They like it like it is and, of course, tourists were 1 of the big money earners for the Thai economy; making global tourists look fairly dumb. I have not been to Thailand and cancelled an excellent deal on an apartment because of Thai attitudes. Cambodia is another question entirely. The Chinese Cambodians really push their weight around to all the other Cambodians. I suspect the Khymer Rouge were heavily financed by the Chinese Cambodians. So, they are right back to their old dead ideas that they can play it anyway they want and still come out being loved by us. Not so. McGee. For my money, I would not play up to these kind of attitudes. I think it is better to have a relationship based on sounder values than manipulation and coercion.
India is different. They seem to like the experience of democracy so will be really pushed around if China every tries to control everything. China has always been determined to kill any western ideas that come to Asia. Will they go after India and the democratic institutions there? They will go after the institutions but I don'tknow how successful they will be. The American Ambassadors are reallyimportant to this process.
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