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Continue the push for expansion of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force plus South Korea's and the Republic of Philipine's navies. Make overatures to India. And start holding massive integrated naval exercises with these and ANZAC navies.

Yes, scrap NATO and upgrade SEATO to be made up of Japan, S. Korea, the Phillipines, Australia, New Zealand, India, Afghanistan and other Central Asian/South East Asian states that wish to contain China.

This is a great idea. It would do much to break the neutrality of ASEAN countries. The reason for their neutrality is, on the one hand, they've been burned before by large allies such as the US and UK failing to protect them. On the other hand, our own non proliferation religion has resulted in a situation where ASEAN is a nuclear free zone; sadly, this has been and will continue to be a PRC goal. I am not saying I want to see countries like Malaysia have their own nukes. But given the DF-15s and DF-21s located just to the north of ASEAN, and given the fact that these are no different than SS-20s, why haven't WE gotten in there with OUR nuclear deterent? Some would say we have a deterent in the form of our ICBMs etc. But I'm telling you there is nothing like having things with short flight times right there. Look at how the Soviets balked on the SS-20s when we put nuke tipped ground launched cruise missiles in Europe and started up the Pershing 2 program. Today, by comparison, ASEAN is at a net disadvantage. Sorry about the long wordy post, this topic really gets my blood boiling.