Asain affairs are for Asians to decide

Comments on Peter Drysdale “Japan and the East Asian Community – Weekly editorial”, 22/03/2010, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/03/22/japan-and-the-east-asian-community-weekly-editorial/

With all respect, Asia and East Asia do not need to be US centric.

They can live by their own as a region.

They have enough weight and strength to be equal with EU or the US.

They need to think and act as a region, not a handicap.

It is interesting but not always helpful to naturally link to the US when people discuss about Asia, or East Asia.

People should not always live in the past. They need to look into the future.

Further, it is especially unhelpful for outsiders to tell Asia or East Asia what they should do for their own affairs.

Whether the US wishes to be everywhere and stay in Asia or East Asia's affairs should not be a key issue for Asians to consider their future.