The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

The Philippines copyright enforcement is weak and and we are concerned it has the potential of becoming a center of pirate optical media production in Asia given the doubling in the number of production lines for compact discs (CDs) and other optical media during the past year,,

there are questions that are being asked not only in the U.S. but other parts of Asia and Europe about how China will use this growing power.

We are too interconnected to try to hold China at arm's length, hoping to promote other powers in Asia at its expense.

Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.

Fourteen months ago, oil seemed to be in a bull market ? then Asia collapsed, ... This is basically a gross domestic product crisis driven by Asia, so the real prospects are whether you think Asia by the year 2000 will start showing signs of recovery.

Considering the stability of global money markets, we'd like to be equally overweight in Asia and emerging markets, as well as in Japan and the United States.

Asia (Jenkins) had a tremendous game and it's hard to beat a team that shoots as well as I thought they did tonight. They played the better game.

Can Asia be the driver of growth? Yes.

For me to say that Asia ex-Japan is about to take over as the source of global growth is quite unusual,