There won’t be a war in East Asia.The United States has five military alliances in the western Pacific. Its allies are South Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Singapore. And American battleships are busy patrolling the seas.Without a go-ahead from Washington, there is no possibility of a hot war involving battleships of sovereign countries here.
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