Posted by Matt in April 10th, 2007 |
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Throughout the 1990s, strategic concerns over long-running conflicts in East Asia—from the division of the Korean peninsula to tensions across the Taiwan Strait to the Indian-Pakistan nuclear competition—shaped U.S. policy in the region. Although the Sino-Soviet rift during the Cold war provided a basis for U.S. relations with communist Beijing, post-Soviet Russia developed a growing [...]
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Posted by Matt in April 1st, 2007 |
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Beijing’s modern war machine is closing rapidly on its 2050 target.
A dramatic increase in the number of submarines being built in southeast Asia has sparked claims that a new arms race is under way beneath the waves in the Western Pacific.
Dozens of hunter-killers, armed with missiles and intelligence-gathering equipment, are being built, fanning fears of [...]
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