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Chapter 4
Analysis and Recommendations
mostly on foreign lands. The irrelevance Despite the contrasts in the direc-
of instruments of United States national tions of these two major players active
power can be judged by the statement in South China Sea, they agree on crucial
of General James Mattis who said, global issues. Stability in Middle East is Implications to ASEAN
“If you don’t fund the State Department fully, as crucial to China as to the United States
then I need to buy more ammunition”. 37 because Chinese economy is existentially
dependent on Middle East oil. Evolving Geo-Strategic Matrix in South China Sea:
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37 General James Mattis, Testimony Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, March 5, 2013
