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  Edgar2Sep. 05, 2008 - 01:07PM JST

  sorry, above should be read "The question needs to be asked whether the elite in china really want full literacy...

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  Edgar2Sep. 05, 2008 - 06:29AM JST

  China and Japan have less-developed democracies. We won't even mention North Korea. Democratic countries can form unions but semi-democratic and communist countries will just try to get along without attacking each other. Japan is a democracy but it's no France, given the fact that only one party has been in power for over 50 years (I know there was a brief period in the 90s when an opposition took power in Japan but it was very weak and held power for only a short while)

  The goal is not union anyway, since in any union China would dominate. The goal is closer and more meaningful ties between truly democratic states. The most developed democracy in East Asia at present is South Korea.

  Posted in: East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability

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  Edgar2Sep. 04, 2008 - 08:56PM JST

  Japan and China should adopt the Korean alphabet. The difficulty of the traditional chinese script in Japan and China a barrier to free communication. An Alphabet would make it easier for the common person to become literate and would faciliate the transmission of ideas to all quarters of the citizenry. NK is an exception since their political system is a greater barrier. In China the rate of illiteracy is still high because of the difficulty of learning Chinese. It's time for China and Japan to adopt an alphabet and I believe the Korean alphabet would work better for these cultures since the Korean script is to some extent based on the Chinese script.

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