A4 - Wednesday, June 13, 1984 - North Shore News

it’s time for hustle

ESPITE THE SENSE of gloom that seems

SO pervasive these days, not everybody in

the world is convinced that the West Coast
is about to sink beneath the tides.

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Bob Hunter
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At a symposium held last
month in Paris at the presti-
gious Institute of Geopolhi-
tics, the big item of news was
the emergence of the Pacific
Basin as the new focus of
economic and political
dynamism.

Whether Bill Bennett’s ad-
visers were aware of this par-
ticular symposium or not, the
opinions expressed by the
heavy-duty thinkers gathered
in Paris matched perfectly
the Pacific Rim vision expres-
sed by the premier on his
return from China and Hong
Kong.

Bennett's journey to the
Far East makes good sense.
If B.C. is to pull itself out of
is) chronic boom-and-bust
cycle, the only way to go ts to
hitch our fortunes to those ot
Asia

According to the Institute
of Geopolitics, China has
teached a histori turning:
point comparable to the Met-
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isolation enforced by the
xenophobic Tokugawa
shogunate.

Fearful the political
power of the Catholic
Church and the weaponry of
the traders who had arrived
on her shores, Japan had
bought internal stability at
the price of ruthlessly enforc-
ed seclusion laws which held
firm until the Americans,
under Commodore Matthew
Perry, forced the bamboo
curtain open, precipitating a
rebellion.

With the end of rule by the
shoguns and the reinstate-
ment of the imperial family,
Japanese who had faced the
death penalty for having con-
tact with foreign devils were
suddenly advised by the
Emperor Meiji to push out
into the world and learn
everything they could.

The plan, simply, was to
adopt Western ways in order
to catch up as quickly as
possible with the technologi-
cally advanced nations of the
West. The ultimate success of
that campaign has _ placed
modern Japan at the very
forefront of the Post-Indus-
trial Revolution.

China's recent decision to
imitate the Japanese strategy
ot more than a century ago
heralds a new era. The
implications for those of us

of

living on the edge of the
Pacitic cannot be
underestimated.

Whether Ottawa goes

along with the scheme or not,
there is plenty of merit in the
idea of Vancouver trying to

assume the international
banking role that is up for
grabs now that Hong Kong’s
capitalist days are numbered.

Similarly, there is every
reason to believe that the
Chinese are serious about
wanting our technological ex-
pertise. Having been promis-
ed a $2 billion loan by Japan
in March, they have the yen
as well as the urge. (Sorry, |
couldn’t resist that.)

The big picture painted by
the Institute of Geopolitics
suggests that the course of
history, which began with a
Mediterranean era and con-
tinued with an = Atlantic
period, is about to enter a
Pacific phase.

The ‘‘Pacific phase’’ is
concrete, and becoming more
so by the month. The
economies of United States
and Japan, for instance, are
starting to merge
dramatically.

A Japanese group, Nippon

Kokan, has just acquired a 50
per cent .nterest in the U.S.’s
forth-iargest steel concern,
National Steel. Washington
is negotiating the use of the
latest Japanese technologies
in its armaments. Most of
Boeing's latest jetliner has
Japanese parts. And of
course Toyota and General
Motors are snuggling up
together.

At the same time, trade
between Japan and China has
topped the $10 billion mark.
The two countries have plain-
ly decided to join their
destinies in a way _ that
couldn’t have been imagined
very long ago. Thus, we see a
vast pattern of economic
linkage stretching around
and across the Pacific.

This is the right time and
we are definitely living in the
right place to grab a piece of
No need for

the action.
gloom. Just hustle.

Driver charged

A 72 year old man is in
Lions Gate Hospital with
severe injuries after being
struck by a car while using
the crosswalk at 19th and

Lonsdale Thursday.

According to police, the
driver of the southbound
vehicle hit the pedestrian
while he was crossing

Lonsdale. The driver is to be
charged with impaired driv-
ing and driving with a blood

alcohol level over .08.
No names have

resident.

The accident occurred at

3:26 p.m.

Suds to be sold

SALE OF BEER and wine in
a beer garden at this year's
Coho Festival, requested by
Coho Festival chairman
Mike Nicell, was approved

Monday by West Vancouver

council.

The celebration
place September 9.

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