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What is a “lake” in maritime strategy? Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe
published an op-ed in Project Syndicate
last week maintaining that Chinese power is increasingly transfiguring
the South China Sea into “Lake Beijing.” That sounds ominous. To
counteract China’s primacy in southern waters, argues Abe, Japan must
augment its combat and police capabilities while forging a “diamond”
with the United States, Australia, and India to defend the commons in
East and South Asia. That sounds like a multinational lake presided over
by the region’s leading liberal republics. Presumably the European
equivalent would be NATO trusteeship over the Mediterranean Sea.
http://thediplomat.com/the-naval-diplomat/2013/01/07/the-south-china-sea-lake-beijing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+the-diplomat+%28The+Diplomat+RSS%29
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