"We are an Asian power with significant and longterm political, economic and security interests," he said Saturday.

Cambodia would be free to become an Asian political and financial power.

In recent years, Asian economic power is getting stronger in the world.

Yet all his meetings will be shaped, to some degree, by the rise of China as a dominant Asian power.

United States is still a leading power, but European and Asian powers are trailing close behind it.

India and China fought a border war in 1962, but ties between the two big Asian powers have improved recently.

This was the first major military victory in the modern era of an Asian power over a European nation.

The flurry of activity reflects China's aspiration to become the dominant Asian power.

In both cases, the Asian imperial powers believed they were ethnically and racially preferenced too.

It is important that the United States and the major Asian powers adopt our targets as well.