East Asian Security and Defence Digest 24

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EDITOR : TIAGO ALEXANDRE FERNANDES MAURÍCIO •R ESEARCHER AT K YOTO U NIVERSITY

R ESEARCHER AT ORIENT I NSTITUTE (TECHNICAL U NIVERSITY OF LISBON)

NUMBER 24 • MONDAY, 21ST MAY 2012

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CHINA IS TOO EMBEDDED IN THE

WORLD SYSTEM TO CHANGE IT

“A status-quo state accepts the existing rules of the game and does not seek to change them because it is generally satisfied with the current situation. China has benefited from the existing international system, and has risen to become the world’s second-largest economy. Logically, it would not aspire to overthrow this system within which it is rising to new heights. In this sense, China is a status-quo power. Nevertheless, China is not simply looking to rigidly adhere to this existing system.”

“CHINA: A REFORM-MINDED

STATUS-QUO POWER ? ” (R EN XIAO - E AST ASIA F ORUM ).

CHINA-INDIA R ELATIONS IN THE

MILITARY DOMAIN ARE MILD

“One of the more enduring aspects of Indian strategic culture is a strong sense of maritime embattlement. Shortly after independence, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru famously attributed India’s past woes at the hands of predatory colonial powers to its maritime weaknesses. During the Cold War, Indian strategists would fret over the potential mushrooming of American submarine pens in Diego Garcia, or over the possible reiteration of the 1971 USS Enterprise incident, when the United States dispatched a carrier task group to the Bay of Bengal in a singularly blunt exercise of naval suasion. More than forty years later, the U.S. presence in the Indian Ocean is no longer viewed by most Indians as a threat. Another, more menacing extra-regional power has stepped in to fill the void, and, in so doing, has ensured the continued survival of the maritime embattlement narrative.”

“SHOULD INDIA FEAR CHINA'S

NAVY?”(ISKANDER R EHMAN - F LASHPOINTS ).

THE COLLAPSE OF NORTH

K OREA'S INFORMATION WALL

“Almost four-fifths of survey respondents indicated that word-of-mouth is the most common means by which information is disseminated in North Korea. Two-fifths of respondents identified DVDs and official state media as primary sources of information, and about one-fifth of

respondents acknowledged South Korean and foreign media as important sources of information in North Korea. This data confirms that North Korea is a society where rumors travel fast. Prohibitions on “horizontal” transmission of information are increasingly ineffective. The state media is increasingly challenged as an official source of information and entertainment, not only by rumors but also by better produced propaganda-free entertainmet[sic] offerings from South Korea.”

“INFORMATION PENETRATION AND

NORTH K OREAN R EGIME

SURVIVAL ” (SCOTT S NYDER - ASIA U NBOUND).

THE ORIENTAL MELIAN DIALOGUE

“Fear, honor, and interest animate small states like Melos and the Philippines as much as they do superpowers like Athens and China. Maritime claims are a matter of self-interest for Filipinos. They are also a matter of honor. Beijing can't expect Manila to simply tally up the balance of forces, acknowledge it faces a hopeless mismatch, and buckle. Philippine leaders can solicit foreign support, and they know Beijing has no Melian option.”

“WHY INDONESIA STANDS UP TO

CHINA ”

(JAMES HOLMES - F LASHPOINTS ).

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EAST ASIAN SECURITY & DEFENCE DIGEST covers expert analyses and news highlights on East Asian security and defence affairs.The opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of JFPO.

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NUMBER 24 • MONDAY, 21ST MAY 2012US'S CONTINENTAL SHELF CLAIMS

“U.S. EXTENDED CONTINENTAL

SHELF IN THE BERING SEA

AND NORTH PACIFIC ” (T HE

H ERITAGE F OUNDATION ).

BEFORE STABILITY, DEMOCRACY

CAN HARBOUR INSTABILITY IN ASIA

“In Asia, people used to point the finger at the presidential system in South Korea. People from the former Soviet Union or Eastern European countries will recognize the same phenomenon at work in contemporary Russia. My idea was to use my talk to introduce some of the lessons we have learned from our study of democratization as it has happened in Asian countries, and the thought processes we have gone through. I thought this might remind people in the audience that Asia is not some strange place with unique issues of its own. Rather, many of the problems that newly emerging democracies face are actually quite similar around the world, in spite of historical and cultural differences.”

“DEMOCRACY AND THE R ULE OF

LAW IN ASIA AND THE

FORMER SOVIET BLOC ”(K ONDO HISASHI -

N IPPON .COM ).

SOUTH K OREA, THE NEWEST

MULTILATERALIST?

“Seoul's enthusiasm for multilateral diplomacy is being reciprocated. Quietly, South Korean nationals are collecting an impressive set of multilateral posts. Most notable of course is Ban Ki-moon, former Korean foreign minister, who was elected to his second term as UN Secretary-General last year. But Korea also boasts the president of the International Criminal Court, Sang-Hyun Song. The next World Bank president, Jim Kim, is American of course, but he was born in South Korea and lived there as a child. Kim was not shy about highlighting that fact as he sought global support for his candidacy.”

“SOUTH K OREA'S MULTILATERAL

MOMENT?” (DAVID BOSCO - F OREIGN P OLICY ).

CHINA-INDONESIA TENSIONS PUT

THE PIVOT TO THE TEST

“The

standoff

between

China and the Philippines in the South China Sea has evolved over the last five weeks into a bizarre brinkmanship triangle. The United States finds itself reluctantly backed into corner number three: this is definitely not the pivot to Asia that Washington had in mind.

The beauty of

brinkmanship, of course, is that actually going over the brink is seldom required. Most likely it won’t be necessary in this situation either. Despite some tough talk from both Beijing and Manila, the hope now is that the two-and-a-half-month fishing moratorium due to be imposed by China on May 16, imposed annually since 1999, will finally help to douse a few tempers, and bring the confrontation to a peaceful conclusion.”

“COULD US GET SUCKED INTO

WAR ?” (TREFOR MOSS- F LASHPOINTS ).

THE PENTAGON'S LATEST CHINA

R EPORT TO CONGRESS

“The Pentagon issued its annual China report to Congress on Friday, and as expected, the brunt of the focus is on China’s preparation for possible hostilities in the Taiwan Strait. That includes doing whatever necessary to keep the U.S. from intervening in the event of conflict with Taiwan.

China is pressing a long-range modernization of its military, part of a strategy aimed at maximizing its leverage over Taiwan, extending its influence farther abroad, but avoiding conflict around

its

borders

or

with

the

United States, the Pentagon said, according to the New York Times.”

“PENTAGON R EPORT ON CHINA

MILITARY IS A YAWNER ”(R AY K WONG - ASIA S ECURITY

W ATCH ).





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NUMBER 24 • MONDAY, 21ST MAY 2012

UNDERSTANDING WAR IN

CONTINUITY, R ATHER THAN

DISCONTINUITY

“We live in peace and then war breaks out, gets fought, and then we return to a period of peace. This is surely the ‘conventional view’ of life, certainly in any post-Hobbesian world. We have come to believe that war is, therefore, somehow abnormal, an event, something out of the ordinary. An analogy to war ‘breaking out’ might be ‘catching a cold’: we demarcate the illness as being somehow different from the normal state of affairs, which is that we are generally healthy. Seems simple enough. But what if it is wrong?”

“BELLA HORRIDA BELLA…AD

INFINITUM: THE R ISKS OF

WAR -TIME ” (THE FACELESS BUREAUCRAT - K INGS OF

W AR).

R EVISITING THE R USSO-JAPANESE

WAR OF 1904/5

“At the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, no one outside Japan had envisaged a Russian defeat. Indeed, the very existence of the Tennō’s empire appeared endangered. The Japanese victory, however, was immediately recognized as a turning point in world history. For the first time in modern history an Asian nation had defeated a European great power. Japan immediately became an important actor in world politics. The impact of the war took on a regional and global character, opening the way to

a new constellation of powers and becoming a prelude to World War I.”

“WORLD WAR ZERO? R E-

ASSESING THE GLOBAL

IMPACT OF THE R USSO-

JAPANESE WAR 1904-1905 ”(GERHARD K REBS - ASIA-

P ACIFIC J OURNAL).

THE PENTAGON'S CHINA R EPORT

“China’s media have responded to the report in customary fashion, with the official Xinhua News Agency claiming: “The Pentagon on Friday falsely accused China's military expenditure of being non-transparent and said the country was responsible for cyberspace intrusions against U.S. computers.” The piece also argued the report is “a Cold War-style practice that the United States once adopted toward the former Soviet Union in an attempt to put pressure on its archrival.”

While there may not be any urgent new information in this week’s release, the U.S. military’s latest assessment of China’s military capabilities is important for obvious reasons. With a long list of tensions between the two, any window the outside world can gain into the complex strategic nexus of U.S.-China military strategy, weapons and tactics is an important one.”

“ NO SURPRISES ON CHINA MILITARY ” (HARRY K AZIANIS

- F LASHPOINTS ).

WILL NORTHEAST ASIA ATTAIN

NUCLEAR -FREE STATUS?

“The controversy over North Korea’s highly enriched uranium (HEU) program, despite intense diplomatic efforts, shows no immediate signs of reaching a peaceful settlement.

Rays of hope from the 15 September Joint Statement in 2005 and the 13 February 2007 Agreement on ‘Initial Actions for the Implementation of the Joint Statement’ at the Six Party Talks (SPTs) have been fading.”

“THE SIX-PARTY TALKS AND BUILDING A NUCLEAR -FREE

NORTHEAST ASIA ” (CHUNG-IN MOON - E AST ASIA F ORUM ).

ASIA IS HIGHLY VULNERABLE TO

BIOTERRORISM

“he reality is that the threats from natural mutations or deliberate engineering are global threats, and they therefore need the international scientific community engaged and willing to share information. Indeed, the Chicago Tribune notes that a subset of the mutations identified by Kawaoka’s team has already been detected in some viruses circulating in poultry flocks in Egypt and parts of Southeast Asia, underscoring the





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NUMBER 24 • MONDAY, 21ST MAY 2012importance of the issue for Asia.

And there was another reminder of the bird flu threat last week with news that Taiwan had confirmed another case of the H5N2 strain of bird flu. The H5N2 strain poses less of a threat to humans than the more notorious H5N1, but this is the sixth outbreak already this year, resulting in the culling of tens of thousands of chickens.”

“CONGRESS, BIOTERRORISM AND

ASIA ” (JASON MIKS - F LASHPOINTS ).

IS THE G-8 IRRELEVANT NOW?

“As leaders of the G-8 industrialized countries gather at Camp David later this week, there will be much talk of global leadership -- and of its importance for our crisis-prone world. In a world where so many challenges transcend borders -- threats to the stability of the global economy, climate change, cyberconflict, terrorism, and risks to reliable supplies of food and water, to name just a few -- the need for international cooperation has never been greater. Yet, cooperation depends on leadership. Only global leaders have the leverage to coordinate multinational responses to transnational problems, as well as the wealth and power to persuade other governments to take actions they would not otherwise take. They provide services no one else will pay for and resources that others cannot afford. On issue after issue, leaders set the agenda.”

“WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD

DISORDER ” (IAN BREMMER - F OREIGN P OLICY ).

R USSIA R EMAINS A MAJOR

STAKEHOLDER IN ASIA'S FUTURE

“So, has concern about U.S. strategic ambitions prompted China and Russia to pursue concrete collaboration in this area? Not so far. One of the speakers at the Missile Defense Conference in Moscow organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense this month lamented how, despite calculations showing how China’s nuclear arsenal would more easily be neutralized by emerging U.S. missile defense systems than Russia’s larger fleet of nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, Chinese officials haven’t objected as vigorously as Russian representatives. Chinese and Russian representatives have thus far largely limited their ballistic missile defense efforts to issuing joint declarations . Clever U.S. diplomacy should aim to keep it that way.

Often overlooked in all this is that China has demonstrated a willingness to adopt some confidence- and security-building measures (CSBMs) that promote greater military transparency and understanding among potential military rivals. Indeed, during the past two decades, China has negotiated a set of bilateral CSBMs with Russia to govern military activities along their joint border. In July 1994, the Russian and Chinese defense ministers agreed to a set of procedures to avert future incidents, including arrangements to prevent unauthorized ballistic missile

launches, prevent the jamming of communications equipment, and warn ships and aircraft that might inadvertently violate national borders. In September of that year, Chinese and Russian authorities pledged not to target strategic nuclear missiles at each other. In April 1998, moreover, China and Russia established a direct presidential hot line – China’s first with another government.”

“R USSIA'S ASIA PLAY MUSTN'T BE

IGNORED ” (R ICHARD WEITZ - F OREIGN P OLICY ).

GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY, BEIJING

STYLE?

“It seems everything old is new again. My (online) colleague Jens Kastner published an important article in Asia Times this week, detailing how Beijing enlists fishermen as an arm of its maritime strategy. His story will strike a familiar chord with any U.S. Navy sailor of a certain age. During the Cold War it was hard for an American task force of any consequence to leave port without a Soviet “AGI” in trail. These souped-up fishing trawlers would shadow U.S. task forces, joining up just outside U.S. territorial waters. So ubiquitous were they that naval

officers

joked

about

assigning the AGI a station in the formation, letting it follow along – as it would anyway – without obstructing fleet operations.”

“CHINA'S SMALL STICK

DIPLOMACY ” (JAMES HOLMES - F LASHPOINTS ).





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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/14/welcome_to_the_new_world_order













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NUMBER 24 • MONDAY, 21ST MAY 2012R EASONS WHY THE US SHOULD

R ATIFY UNCLOS

“Ratifying LOSC will not address every challenge the United

States

will

confront

at

sea, but it will substantially improve America's ability to protect its global interests by providing a stronger legal foundation for its own maritime activities and helping to shape and enforce international norms and legal authorities. Most importantly, it will restore U.S leadership at sea. The United States has always been a maritime power. Given the growing importance of the maritime domain to U.S. interests and the rapidly changing global security environment, the United States needs every tool at its disposal to ensure that America will remain a strong global leader at sea.

The U.S. Senate should ratify the Law of the Sea Convention today.”

“LAW OF THE SEAS: LESS BORING

THAN YOU THINK ” (WILL R OGERS - B EST D EFENSE ).

THE US AIR FORCE'S SHARE OF

THE ASIA PIVOT

“The United States has refocused its strategic priorities in an oft-talked about “Pivot to Asia” and has made a deliberate decision in new defense strategic guidance not to size the military for large scale counter-insurgency operations, but instead to posture to deter conflict in Asia where there is a clear anti-access, area-denial threat. Such a shift has implications and raises questions about the appropriateness of retaining force structure and concepts developed for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan across all the military services.”

“AIR POWER K EY TO US ASIA

GOALS ” (LT. COL. PETER GARRETSON - T HE D IPLOMAT ).

JAPAN HIGHLIGHTS

WHAT ARE THE LESSONS LEARNED

FROM THE SENKAKU INCIDENT?

“One, it is not clear that the Chinese trawler captain had any affiliations with the PRC government or that he was acting in its behalf. Two, it is not certain that the Coast Guard was acting under orders from Tokyo or rather following normal rules of engagement. Three, there is no conclusive evidence that the linkage between an occasional naval squabble and a security concern between the two countries was made immediately after the occurrence. Four, as a consequence of the third point, it remains to be proven that the incident was automatically perceived as a security threat in Tokyo and Beijing. Five, the fact that it was framed within the grand narrative of a rebalance of power in Asia was necessarily post facto and thus not a constitutive

factor,

that

is

to

say, its securitisation was not unavoidable.”

“I NTERPRETING THE SENKAKU ISLANDS I NCIDENT ” (TIAGO

MAURICIO - JFPO).





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http://the-diplomat.com/2012/05/19/air-power-key-to-u-s-asia-goals/














http://www.japanfpo.org/2012/05/interpreting-senkaku-islands-incident.html



















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NUMBER 24 • MONDAY, 21ST MAY 2012A SEA THAT UNITES?

“Many of the most salient disputes between China and its neighbors involve maritime issues. Moreover, as demonstrated by the current standoff between Beijing and Manila over Scarborough Shoal, China is often seen as assertive and uncompromising . Nevertheless, maritime talks held with Japan this week suggest that China can be more flexible in managing its maritime disputes than most outsiders believe.”

“JAPAN, CHINA’S MARITIME STEP ”(TAYLOR FRAVEL - C HINA

P OWER).

MISHAPS IN JAPAN-CHINA

R ELATIONS CAUSE CONTROVERSY

“Way to sway the opinions of Japanese legislators, PRC leadership!

As 90 of the 100 or so Diet members who received this charming missive are members of the Liberal Democratic Party, it is should not be surprising that LDP headquarters hosted a little show-and-tell party today, releasing the text of the response to the Ambassador 's letter (J - personal blog ） , complete with the signatures of 46 members of the Diet on it. You have to admit, it is an effective document. When you would expect it to scream, it hisses, to devastating effect:

独立主権国家の国会議員への書状としては、著しく適切性に欠いているといわざるを得ません。

We must tell you that sending such a document to the national legislators of an independent sovereign state

shows marked lack of a sense of propriety.

Ouch!!! ”“THIS WILL DAMAGE JAPAN'S

OWN SECURITY AS WELL ”(MICHAEL CUCEK - S HISAKU ).

THE REALITIES OF AMERICA'S

EMPIRE OF BASES

“Earlier this week, Okinawa Prefecture marked the 40th anniversary of its reversion to Japanese sovereignty following U.S. occupation. Yet four decades on, and the future of Japan’s southernmost prefecture remains uncertain, with slow progress on key issues. For Okinawans, the harsh reality is that they are still living on occupied territory.”

“JAPAN’S PERSISTENT

“AMERIPHOBIA” ”(K OSUKE TAKAHASHI - T HE

D IPLOMAT ).

JAPANESE FOOTAGE OF CHINESE

UAVS

“Another year, another Chinese training fleet sails by Miyakojima. Last year, you may remember, the Japanese patrol planes shadowing the Chinese training fleet caught a first glimpse of the fleet’s naval UAV. This year, no doubt prepared for its appearance, a MSDF P-3C Orion caught the UAV(s!) far more clearly, not only in the air but also on deck.”

“JAPANESE CAMERAS CATCH

CHINESE NAVAL UAV

AGAIN ” (JAMES SIMPSON - J APAN S ECURITY W ATCH ).

WHAT DID THE SENKAKU ISLANDS

INCIDENT SAY OF JAPAN?

“When looking at the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands Incident of September 2010 there is a powerful dynamic which has been seldom acknowledged by analysts and reporters. I am referring to the substantial pressure that the Japanese government suffered from intra-state actors to deal more appropriately - that is, more forcibly -, with the said incident. In this view, the government represented the conservative player interested in dictating its own rhythm of action in order to do the damage-control it deemed necessary and to promote the interests that were interpreted as in the national interest of Japan.

This is admittedly not the view adopted by the media and many of the early commentators on this issue.”





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NUMBER 24 • MONDAY, 21ST MAY 2012“SENKAKU DILEMMA ” (TIAGO

MAURICIO - JFPO).

JAPAN IS BOOSTING ITS ANTI-

NUCLEAR , BIOLOGICAL &

CHEMICAL CAPABILITIES

“At a cost of around ¥700,000,000 per vehicle, the rather simple solution to sampling contaminated material seems a little out of place, but sometimes simplicity is best. Once contamination has been determined, the data is passed back to local commanders and the Ministry of Defense for decision-makers to act upon.

The vehicle combines the functions of the older Chemical Protection Vehicle (B-Variant), brought into service in 1999, which was based upon the frame of the Type-82 Command Communication Vehicle, and the Biological Reconnaissance Vehicle, based on the chassis of the Type-73 3.5-ton Truck. The Chemical Protection Vehicle saw considerable use in the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant in the past year.

Around 50 vehicles will be put into service with the Central Nuclear Biological Chemical Weapon Defense Unit, which has been a key unit in the response to the Fukushima nuclear accident, and part of which will be charged with first-response to NBC attack in the capital.”

“MEET JAPAN’S NEW NBC

R ECONNAISSANCE VEHICLE ”

(JAMES SIMPSON - J APAN S ECURITY

W ATCH ).

WHAT IS THE UIGHUR CONGRESS

CONFERENCE ALL ABOUT?

“The World Uighur Congress is holding its triennial conference in Tokyo this week, the first time the conference is being held outside Germany or the United States, the home-in-exile of the movement's leader and former delegate to the People's Congress Rebiya Kadeer (E). The Chinese government is, true to form, completely beside itself over Tokyo's hosting this conference. The conference's opening , along with the recent waking up sleeping dog that should be left to lie, the status of the Senkaku islets, poisoned the atmosphere at the weekend's vitally important trilateral meeting. (J)”

“THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS

NOT MY FRIEND ”

(MICHAEL CUCEK - S HISAKU ).

THE PLACE OF SECURITY IN

STATECRAFT

“The very fact that an entire subfield of international studies on Japan has been devoted to its "normalisation", notwithstanding the murkiness of the concept, attests to the irregular nature of security practices and discourses in the country of the rising sun. Four

examples of contrasting nature will illustrate how issues can be successfully securitised or de-securitised in security discourses. I will start precisely with those events which have been de-securitised, for they provide a clearer illustration of how security practices shape a country's policy.”

“SECURITISING JAPAN-CHINA

R ELATIONS ”

(TIAGO MAURICIO - JFPO).





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NUMBER 24 • MONDAY, 21ST MAY 2012JAPAN NEWS CLIPS

“U.S. TOWN'S MONUMENT

UPSETTING JAPANESE

OFFICIALS ”

“CHINA DELAYS VISIT OF TOP

MILITARY OFFICER ”

“OWNER OK WITH METRO BID TO

BUY DISPUTED SENKAKU

ISLANDS ”

“VISIT TO BRITAIN CONJURES UP MEMORIES OF EMPEROR 'S

FIRST VISIT ”

“ECONOMIC RELIANCE ON BASES

WON'T LAST, TRENDS

SUGGEST ”

“HU SNUBS NODA AS TENSION RISES

OVER UIGHUR ISSUE ”

“OKINAWA MARKS 40TH

ANNIVERSARY OF REVERSION

TO JAPAN ”

“U.S. DEFENSE SHIFT KEEPS OKINAWA IN STRATEGIC MIX ”

“3 E. ASIAN POWERS AVOID

MENTIONING N. K OREA IN

JOINT DECLARATION ”

“WEN URGES JAPAN TO RESPECT

CHINA'S 'CORE INTERESTS,'

ALLUDES TO SENKAKUS ”

“'ISHIHARA SHOCK ' BRINGS ISLES

DISPUTE TO NODA-WEN

TALKS ”

“GIST OF JOINT DECLARATION BY

CHINA, JAPAN, S. K OREA

LEADERS ”

“NODA, WEN AGREE SENKAKU

ISSUE

SHOULD

NOT

AFFECT

JAPAN-CHINA TIES ”

“R EMOTE OKINAWA RESIDENTS

CAUGHT UP IN TENSIONS OVER

ISLE DISPUTE ”

“JAPAN, CHINA, S. K OREA TO

BOOST SECURITY, ECONOMIC

COOPERATION ”

“GOV'T TO ACCEPT PRICE HIKE FOR

F-35; EACH JET TO COST

OVER 10 BILLION YEN ”

“2ND ENGINEER TEAM ORDERED TO S. SUDAN ”

“GOVT REQUESTS MEETING IN

R USSIA WITH PUTIN ”

“U.S. WARPLANES DREDGE

OKINAWAN WOMAN'S

HORRIFIC WAR MEMORIES ”

“THE RETURN OF PRESIDENT

PUTIN ”

“EX-SDF MEMBER MAKES 9.8 MIL.

YEN WATCH ”





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