I love history and its easy to see the parallels to the Naval Arms Race of the early 1900's in this as a mix of pride, desire for raw materials, and plain ambition begin to take hold. I notice that all these Navy's are adding ships to there fleets, the Japanese have added a Oversized Helicopter/Destroyer and is adding submarines to there fleet the Chinese have added a rebuilt Russian Carrier and I think is building one as well and is adding to its surface fleet as well, India has added a new Carrier and is build another and a Nuclear Submarine. And there all in the same area and compete for the resources under the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The Philippines are even getting into the game by buying ships, mainly smaller ones from the US, Japan, and South Korea as well as getting more assistance on the cash front from the US. I even think the Vietnamese navy is adding Kilo Subs to its navy bought from Russia.
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