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...1950s. The youngest Prime Minister in postwar Japanese history, Abe came to power last September as the architect of a self-proclaimed "assertive diplomacy" in which a re-energized nation would claim its rightful place on the global stage. The 52-year-old vowed to repair relations with Asian neighbors still wounded by Japan's wartime aggression and aimed to transform the nation's military from a limited self-defense force into a proper army. It was an ambitious agenda that, if successful, would have reminded East Asia that China would not be able to determine the region's future...
...Taking place hard on the heels of war games among China, Russia and Central Asian states, the four-nation exercise revealed a side of the region supposedly made extinct by growing economic and diplomatic integration: Asia has embarked upon a new arms race. And with China, Russia, Japan and India all feeling their strength, the region's powers are beginning to divide into two broad alliances...
...China boosted its military spending this year by nearly 18%. Japan is modernizing its forces, with the Ministry of Defense switching from Russia to China as its potential new enemy. Bolstered by the rising price of oil, Russia sees itself again as a Pacific power and is rebuilding its Asian fleet...
...pushed a collective free-trade deal with Southeast Asia. Focused together on terrorism, Washington and Beijing have built closer military links. Just as important, nations across Asia have created a web of new economic and diplomatic links, from currency swaps to trade agreements to the new annual East Asian Summit...
...even as Asian countries extend one hand in an embrace, they keep the other behind their back, clenching a gun. Despite Beijing's attempts to reassure other governments, its growing economic and military might frightens its more open neighbors. Given China's opaque politics, leaders still cannot predict whether Beijing will prove benign or threatening. Average people, too, reflect this mistrust. In the latest survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, a majority of people in only two Asian nations surveyed had favorable opinions of China, and one of those two was ... China...