Sphere of influence

And how cool is that that you get to walk home? Because I was talking about that.

How cool is this? And that's, I think, a great way to stay in touch with Spear.

So everybody listening, do that.

Come up with something.

No, no, you should not apologize at all.

I think people use your language all the time, which is spheres of influence.

Uh, I, I think of the world in terms of regions.

Uh-

Um, uh, congratulations to the Danes for preserving their sovereignty within the context of accepting some limitations consistent with the sphere of influence.

Sphere of influence basically is an arrangement by which a dominant power asserts specific restraints on, uh, the sovereign, uh, territory of another, um, and usually it is aimed at excluding third parties.

[clears throat] I think, uh, you can look at the world in terms of spheres of influence interestingly after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its replacement by a weak and disorderly Russian Federation, um, uh, as well as in newly independent states in the Baltics, in Central Asia, in Ukraine, in the Caucasus.

Um, the, um, uh, the United States basically asserted a global sphere of influence, as I mentioned.

That is to say we reserve the right to veto the decisions by any government anywhere in the world outside North Korea, Iran, uh, the Russian Federation, and China, which are too powerful and too ornery, uh, to push around, apparently.

On the contrary, the open door is almost the opposite of imperialism.

But the opening of the Far East led inevitably to a desire for monopoly of markets, mines, and railway building, hence for monopolistic spheres of influence, and also for naval bases, and in some cases territory.

This was genuine imperialism, and it has been the dominant factor in the Far East since the 1880s.

The early commercial motive and the later imperialism both required the use of force, but in their effects they were unlike.

These five relating to advisors, schools, and hospitals, the railways in the Yangtze Valley, arsenals, and Buddhist propaganda were to be postponed.

To the threat of war, China yielded, and sixteen of the twenty-one demands were incorporated in a series of treaties and notes signed May twenty-fifth, nineteen fifteen.

Shantung, Fujian, eastern Mongolia, as well as southern Manchuria, were now Japanese spheres of influence, and the biggest iron concern in the Yangtze was to borrow money only from Japan.

In normal times, the European powers would not have tolerated such aggression unless they received compensatory gains.