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The Most Immediate Task Is To Make Certain That No State Or Combination Of States Gains The Capacity To Expel The United States From Eurasia Or Even To Diminish Significantly Its Decisive Arbitration Role.

Moreover, They [the Central Asian Republics] Are Of Importance From The Standpoint Of Security And Historical Ambitions To At Least Three Of Their Most Immediate And More Powerful Neighbors, Namely Russia, Turkey And Iran, With China Also Signaling An Increasing Political Interest In The Region. But The Eurasian Balkans Are Infinitely More Important As A Potential Economic Prize: An Enormous Concentration Of Natural Gas And Oil Reserves Is Located In The Region, In Addition To Important Minerals, Including Gold.

It Certainly Would Be Possible For America To Redefine Its Role In The World, Especially If, In The Short Run, America Is Able To Cope Effectively With The Ongoing Dilemma In The Middle East.

Soon It Will Be Possible To Assert Almost Continuous Surveillance Over Every Citizen And Maintain Up-to-date Complete Files Containing Even The Most Personal Information About The Citizen.

The Dynamic Character Of China's Nonstatist Economic Transformation, Including Its Social Openness To The Rest Of The World, Is Not Mutually Compatible In The Long Run With A Relatively Closed And Bureaucratically Rigid Communist Dictatorship.