Asia is in flux, and the power equations between its major players are still evolving.
You, as a source of authority from outside the normal Terran power equations, are quite another matter.
I have to try to change the basic power equation of New York.
And the path to changing the "basic power equation" is precisely where the two groups differ.
He'd spent all of his working life protecting the Party from those who wished to change the power equation.
"The power equation in northeast Asia will change depending on the choices we make."
The above fourth power equation can be solved for x using any available method.
But it signals an enormous shift in the Asian power equation.
The reasons are many, beginning with the power equation prevailing in the Middle East today.
It points to a larger issue about the change in the power equation.