A--needing a place for steamships to refuel: the push came from the need for a modern navy to support the economic interests in Asia.
Alfred Mahan's book on sea power convinced the US government a modern navy was needed. To create a large fleet, the US needed ports on islands throughout the Pacific to refuel and rest ships. These parts were provided as trade deals, protection, or takeover of the land.
It was said, according to Zhou Enlai, that the main effect of President Nixon's visit to China as he strengthens the ties between the United States and China, was that "it <span>bridged the vast ocean in the world, twenty-five years of no communication." The ties between China and US at that time are unfriendly since China was an ally of the Soviet Union at the course of the Cold War.</span>
Where are the statements? :D
I think is this one..one house legislature called congress
