Keating has lost the plot, page-215

I would not throw all my cards out at this stage when China is still well behind the first chain of islands. It's like all cash in after the first drill. This overreaction will cost three generations to recover and mistrust from Asian neighbours decades to come. And the integration into Asia Pacific and reconciliation with the first nation people will be procrastinated by hundreds of years, obviously the ruling class choose not to integrate at all and being a lunatic colonist dangling under the foot of Asia for ever.