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KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondent

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. and its allies in the Indo-Pacific are moving toward establishing a de facto "common market" for the defense industry, setting the same industrial standards and reinforcing each other's defense industrial base, an analyst at the conservative think tank Hudson Institute told Nikkei Asia.

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