From:	dbuehrer@****.org (David Buehrer)
Subject:	Re: (Fwd) Re: RE> RE: New project!
Date:	Sun, 29 Sep 1996 17:47:31 -0600 (MDT)

Paolo Falco wrote:
|
|On 26 Sep 96, Gurth wrote the FoxMaster about Re: RE> RE: New
|project!:
|
|> * Asia: China is ruled by warlords, and so has disintegrated as a country.
|> Tibet is shielded from the rest of the world by a high-powered magical
|> forcefield (or something :). Japan is a world power.
|
|About Japan. We should (if we can) detail HOW can one country with
|almost no territory get to be a _real_ world power. Of course, it can
|get to be like that through economical slavery, but has it got a
|-real- army? (Japan now cannot have an army since it lost WWII)

Japan currently has a very well armed defense force (almost everything
purchased from the US), which for all practical purposes is an army except
by name.

|> The rest of the
|> countries in the area would probably have either followed China's example,
|> or fought wars with each other to radically alter the map of the
|> continent, IMHO.
|
|What about INDIA? India is the classic place that could become a
|MAJOR power with the awakening! It's got the people, it has got the
|territory, a (now) stable government, a (minor) development in
|economics, and of course it's got the magical background!!!

VITAS. It was devestating for high density population areas with poor
sanitary conditions. Combine India's population density, their lack of
sanitary sewage handling, and a couple monsoons and... Not much left
of India after that.

-David

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