also porsche rehm worse is that iran and north korea are pursuing weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. it appears that the major rivalry is an intensifying and picking up has happened steadily and these announcements made are the u.s.'s own calculations and was part of my dynamic. i believe this was already in the making and in the last couple of years especially in the last two years considerable literature appeared suggesting that the unipolar world led by the united states is giving way to multipolarity. the world was in disarray meaning the second world war, post-second world war world orr w n inx flu about to change and didn't kw what would come out of it. alison came up with the prediction that the united states and china mightht actualy be destined for war as the topic of his book unless they come up with courageous and painful decisions not to enter that. we had another book on i think it was the future of american state where we also talked at great length on the new rebalance in asia. slightly earlier before that the longtime statements -- on singapore have suggested china's