Asia’s Game Without Frontiers
Many Asian countries are responding to current territorial disputes by adopting robust national-defense strategies aimed at fending off current challenges and precluding future threats. But there are few rules governing how these shifts – particularly by China, Japan, and India – take place.
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NEW DELHI – Nowadays, many people seem to be more relaxed than ever about nationality, with the Internet enabling them to forge close connections with distant cultures and people. But states remain extremely sensitive about their borders’ inviolability. After all, territory – including land, oceans, air space, rivers, and seabeds – is central to a country’s identity, and shapes its security and foreign policy.