Charles the VI rose to the position of emperor in 1711 of the Holy
Roman Empire, after which, between
1712-1714, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, was conferred the rank of
barony by the emperor during a visit
to Vienna, by Leibniz. In a Leibnizian world there's sufficient
reason for the argument for the existence
of evil, malfeasance or the less than perfectness in this case at
least the very probability of it...

The take of 'The Principle of Sufficient Reason' is one that raises
the question of how commercial ties
may have evolved from a military one and how subsequent economic and
trade policies from this ties may
lead back to the evidence of its' existence and who it may involve.
It also explores the likelihood of the
fruition from a less than perfect world, in which, a political crisis
emerged involving the U.S. and China along
the lines of the Cuban missiles. In a last ditch effort, to avail
itself of this predicament, the U.S government
resorted to a diplomatic solution where a group of peace
representatives was dispatched into hostile territory
including a well-known and respected senator; brought out of
retirement to aid in this peace mission to avoid
the draconian outcome of world instability and probable armageddon.

In the latest novel by John Grisham, the tale revolves around Joel
Backman a lawyer who has in his possession
a piece of spy satellite surveillance information possible in
compromising the national security of the republic.
What stood out from an excerpt is the 4 candidate countries that
value such a piece of information... (Saudi)Arabia,
China, Israel and Russia(in alphabetical order), enough to pay a
price, monetarily or with a life of the person in
possessing it. Is truth really stranger than fiction?...

Taking information "Googled" and from declassified Pentagon
documents, in a dispassionate and objective light,
there is a mirroring military nexus connecting the last three nations
of China, Israel and Russia. Assuming, surveillance
satellites are catagorized militarily. Israel is China's 2nd largest
supplier of arms and the Sino giant had the 3rd largest
defense spending buildup in the preceding year of 2004. The first two
are the U.S. and... Russia. Russia is the largest supplier
of arms to China and had 2nd largest defense spending in 2004 with
the largest, the first being... $450 billion by the U.S..
To add, in a Pentagon report to Congress, it was revealed there were
evidence of efforts by China in trying to displace U.S.
superiority in the skies specifically satellites inorder to gain a
strategic advantage on any efforts at assimilate Taiwan
into its' sovereignty.

The fact that military spending information of the nation of China
has to come out from the Pentagon, tells the difficulty
in availability or the degree of restrictions placed on these data.
In is fact that there is difficulty tracking small
arms across the world. The price of a specialized military equipment
such as an F-15 dwarfs that of a comparable commercial
jetliner by production year. Is it sufficient reason that countries
exporting such equipment or that of the same nature
would have some reservations in such sales to countries whose
strength of their currencies can't be guaranteed and are
more susceptible to market forces or is it deniable plausibility?...
Sufficient reason for a dollar peg that facilitate
military sales? or a peg that cloaks the perception of one? (A is
represented in B insofar as B perceives A)

Is is highly visible the dollar peg promotes high foreign investments
into the countries that have initiated it. For developing countries
it could play a tremendous boon when you're trying to climb the web
of capitalism. Foreign investment into China increased appreciably
after the dollar peg in 1995. This is true of another country that
did so. But what is not highly visible and publicized is the signs of
the appreciation of arms and military hardware sales behind those
pegs. Reasonably not many people would pay attention to it except for
the fact that the U.S. has always avoided sales to China to
circumvent a probable Taiwan conflict and has always frowned at its'
allies that do so. On the flip side Taiwan was a big purchaser of
U.S. arms. Could it be that the U.S. have not known exactly what
Israel's right hand was doing only to be shown onlt to be shown the
most visible one? or could have the evidence been there all along but
never rising above the circumstancial threshold or at the very least
not to the eyes of Congress?

The question going forward is 'Could China become a global threat to
its' competitors both economically and militarily?' and what do we do
about it? Superpowers have long had the ability to a certain degree
to dictate and steer the course of history... however even in such
areas as culture, demograhics, intrastructures, policies and
stability there're factors that fall out of the control even of the
mighty and powerful... factors that the U.S. government can't
influence should China or a nation like North Korea in its' process
of transforming economically for the betterment of the country,
transitions into the cross-hairs of concern of another
state or power and challenges its' national security...

'The Principle of Sufficient Reason' explores the probableness of a
world, a less than perfect world should it exist
over a more perfect one in a Leibnizian concept of Perfection. Could
we see ourselves in a situation similar to that with Cuba,
a situation in a point of of crisis at which we were reduced to
deciding from a limited set of options on how to respond including
a draconian one? Like always The Principle of Harmony and peace in
the best possible world holds true to form for Leibniz w/
a little help on my part... and as always...

May all your endeavors be prosperous... and a peaceful one!


P. Mavin

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Disclosure: It is NOT in my interest to implicate a nation or promote
any negative sentiments about a specific nation or its'
peoples. It is the philosophy of peace and harmony that i espouse
to.