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Herein, again, we only shave the common fate of all nations; for not only do all touch one another more closely than of old, but—and especially in Asia—conditions external to all are drawing the regard of all towards a common centre, where as yet nothing certain is determined, where the possibilities of the future are many, and diverse, and great.

A.T. Mahan, The Problem of Asia (1900)

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