Christopher Caldwell writes: Things are changing. Having ended its self-imposed ban on arms-dealing in 2014, Japan is now selling anti-submarine reconnaissance systems and patrol vessels to Malaysia and Vietnam, and boats to the Philippines. Abe has considered amending Japan's pacifist postwar constitution—for the first time—to permit its "self-defense forces" to become a full-fledged military. Until some new defense arrangement can be devised, the waters and airspace in which four of the world's half-dozen largest militaries operate (China, Russia, and North and South Korea) are going to be defended by the United States if they are defended at all. – The Weekly Standard
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