“I don’t buy the (question of), ‘What’s China want?’” Case said. “China wants to be a world power. China feels it’s entitled to be a world power. China probably is entitled to be a world power given its immense population and resources and history. Of course they deserve to be a world power. What kind of world power is that going to be? Is that going to be an adverse world power, as in the USSR? Is it going to be a power for good that gets along with the rest of the world?”
Here’s what Case had to say about the changing role of the military in Hawaii:
“The military is quite interested nowadays in public-private partnerships. It may not have felt that way when I was growing up when, you know, there was like this huge Berlin Wall between the military and the rest of Hawaii. That’s been broken down in the last couple of decades.”
Watch the full interview (scroll down past other interviews to find the video featuring Case).
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