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...long do such bilateral agreements last? In February of 1998, the United States marked the 50th anniversary of its naval command center in Bahrain. About 3,000 military personnel, mostly from the Navy, currently live there on yet another huge base. The complex covers roughly 100 acres, but there are plans to expand...
...fact, the majority of Japanese oppose the country's naval mission. Yet Aso and Fukuda, like Abe, both support extending Japanese refueling, and they have other things in common. Their family political DNA runs deep. Aso's grandfather was Shigeru Yoshida, a China-bashing leader who called for Japan to rely on American military protection so it could focus on developing an export-led economy. Fast-forward half a century and Aso, a former Foreign Minister, staunchly supports the U.S.-Japan security alliance, while antagonizing China by defending visits of Japanese statesmen to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where war criminals...
Keough said that the special procedure, which has also been used for the redevelopment of the Fort Debbins Army base and the South Weymouth Naval airbase, will not mean a speedier review process for Harvard...
...have seen is actions, not just words," Mullen said, praising China's openness. "I consider that to be very positive." But that public warmth seemed to last about as long as a Lindsay Lohan rehab stint. Just days later, India, Australia, Japan and the U.S. held a comprehensive naval exercise, the first appearance of the Seventh Fleet in the Bay of Bengal since 1971, while Shinzo Abe, then Japanese Prime Minister, called for an "arc of freedom" across Asia, linking the region's democracies...
...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...