James Crabtree is executive director of IISS-Asia in Singapore. He is author of "The Billionaire Raj."
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New wave of Asian defense pacts no magic template for countering China
U.S. will need to increase military presence to change Beijing's strategic calculations
Fumio Kishida and Scott Morrison attend a video signing ceremony on Jan. 6: the Reciprocal Access Agreement only goes some way to mitigating the fact that Canberra and Tokyo have at times quite different instincts about how to deal with China. © Reuters
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