The arms race that is reshaping the Pacific

Making predictions about world security is usually a mug's game, but here is one you can bank on for the vast Asia-Pacific region.

It is that the monumental new arms build-up there by at least a half-dozen nations, in particular China, India and Japan, will soon alter the security realities that have existed under six decades of an all-powerful U.S. naval presence.

The region is already tense as a result of recent flare-ups on the Korean peninsula and angry disputes at sea between Japan and China.


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