East Asia United
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I will summarize both of my theories, as they are related:
1. Theory of Historical Continuity: Human societies or civilizations when they reach a certain size constantly adapt and reinvent themselves, due to internal reorganization and external influence. The longer a society is left intact without too much external interference, the more they can achieve a high degree of internal cohesion and as a result are able to adapt to changing circumstances more quickly and efficiently, as compared to a society that has been the victim of external aggression and forced transformation. In other words, relatively untouched societies retain some competitive edge over societies that were victims of invasion and brutal subjugation.
Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-...ld-order-road-map-future-8.html#ixzz2XL73Rpaz
2. Theory of Large Systems: A larger human social entity usually will win when in competition with a smaller one, provided that they have similar level of integration and homogeneous population (derived from their Historical Continuity) and equal mastery of science and technology.
Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-...ld-order-road-map-future-8.html#ixzz2XL7WbSYj
A 3rd theory is possible about genetic potential of groups of people such as families, clans and nations, as one of the factors, like the above two, that determines competitive edge of nations, which you have embarked upon in a thread now with discussions about the relationship between IQ and genes. I briefly referred to the same study that you posted in OP of that thread with a more recent version. But I kind of avoid this subject, because belief's about genetic potential can be used by people to accuse someone of scientific racism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
It can destroy career, because it goes against the established politically correct set of scientific beliefs prevailing in the Western countries.
An ongoing example:
Wal-Mart drops Paula Deen after she tearfully says: Kill me if you’ve never committed a sin - The Washington Post
So it is a kind of "Taboo" subject. But I am well aware that many people in East Asia, specially South Korea, Japan and China (Taiwan, Singapore and more recently mainland) have a natural tendency to have strong inclinations towards this 3rd theory and to justify their success using this theory. I guess the proof will only become apparent when we see East Asia, specially China reigning supreme as the top super power of the world, hopefully in a few decades.
So, if the 3rd theory becomes finally established, regardless of the taboo of political correctedness associated with it, then we may see a rush of eugenic projects where people from other nations will either be interested in marriage with the more intelligent high IQ nations to gain that "superior" genetic material, starting with the elite, or introduce the "superior" genes in their population through donor sperms or eggs, or just create designer genes with the relevant "IQ" or other parts added from the "desirable" population. So genetic makeup of nations can be changed and I believe will be changed at will, once it is known that it creates competitive edge. Another related interesting idea to look at:
Heterosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This however, still will not serve to diminish or negate the importance of theories 1 and 2, in my opinion. On the contrary, the 3rd theory can be used to organize neighbor and regional nations in a regional union, so that there can be natural hierarchy and division of labor among the different nations of a particular regional union. As an example, a unified Korea and Japan can together be in the leading position of ASEAN+, if it ever takes shape, which is relevant to the subject of this thread.
I do not think East Asian Union (Japan + Korea + China) is possible, since Japan and Korea would avoid being dominated by a much larger China with the potential risk of getting absorbed and assimilated in China. Every nation treasures its own cultural continuity for their own survival as pointed out in theory 1.
1: I think that Embryo selection is close to commercialization. This will be the future, and gene therapy afterwards (and maybe even cybernetic enhancements after that)
2: I think a European-Union like East Asian Union is possible, if it had immigration restrictions and each country was able to develop it's own culture and language. Therefore, it would be an economic union, with a common military and foreign policy, in addition to common identity on the regional level (though each people will retain their own culture and lifestyle).
This is possible, but the large animosity between countries (especially Japan and China) dilutes the possibility of this happening any time soon.
East Asia's greatest weakness is the hatred between each others peoples. The Chinese rabbit guy on this forum is an example of this.