the valves stems, indicated by unusual recommendations to replace the valves regardless of condition. • The next time a repair needs to be done in the Malacca Straits, this repair would be raised as potential guidance for who (or who not) to do the repair, based on the experience recorded in the system. • The ent

urity and reform all produce sensible questions. China needs oil, for instance. Must she project power into the Middle East? Control the sea lanes of the Malacca Straits? There’s no natural, inherent resistance to American interests in any one problem, but that hopeful American logic of “engagement” ignores much about