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...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...
...India may spend as much as $40 billion on new weapons over the next five years, many coming from U.S. companies. 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...
...arms deals only stoke fears - and more arms deals. Indonesia's purchases probably will worry Australia, whose naval dominance is critical when Australian forces intervene near its giant neighbor, as in East Timor in 1999. Worse, each step that major countries like Australia, Japan, the U.S. and India take toward an alliance only worries China more, sparking its fears of containment and prodding it to build its own links to Russia, Central Asian nations and Pakistan...
After a slow start, Crushpad is blooming. In 2004 it produced 200 barrels. This year there will be more than 1,000. And Brill hopes to create more Crushpads to take the winemaking process closer to urban enologists. First up is Tokyo, where Crushpad Japan recently opened, bringing West Coast winemaking to the Far East...
...political deathwatch on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began minutes after his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a historic defeat in elections at the end of July, leaving the opposition in charge of the legislature's upper house for the first time in Japan's postwar history. Abe resisted immediate calls for his resignation and seemed ready to battle for his job in the face of public antipathy. But on Sept. 12 the "fighting politician," as Abe liked to call himself, suddenly lost his stomach for the fight and submitted his resignation to a shocked Japan. "The people need...