- East Asian economies pose the greatest and increasing, competitive challenge to the United States.
- East Asian countries offer the only example of once "third world," "developing" countries that have caught up with , and even surpassed Western/European countries in terms of wealth and level of technology.
- East Asia is a dynamic region of the world economy and a focal point of international security and diplomatic attention. Three of America's four major wars during the 20th century were fought in Asia.
- The East Asian development experience challenges Western, purely market-oriented theories of economic development, and ideas about the infallable virtue of democracy.
- Despite the growing importance of East Asia on the world stage, the number of university graduates with specialized knowledge of Asian economics, development, and politics remains low.
- An appreciation of East Asia also bequeaths a better understanding of the Western Experience.
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