Japan to Offer Aid to Nations in Disputes with China!

• Japan to offer aid to nations in disputes with China! 
  by Martin Fackler | The Boston Globe 
  Japanese prime minister offers more support to the Association for Southeast Asian Nations
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  Saying that his nation will play a larger role in regional security, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan said Friday that his government will support Vietnam and other nations that have territorial disputes with China by providing patrol ships, training, and military surveillance equipment.
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  Abe, speaking at an international security meeting in Singapore, said he wants Japan to shed the passiveness that has marked its diplomacy after World War II and take more responsibility for maintaining regional stability. He said Japan will cooperate with the United States and other like-minded nations such as Australia and India to uphold international rule of law and freedom of navigation, and to discourage China’s increasingly assertive efforts to take control of islands and expanses of ocean that are claimed by other Asian nations, including Japan.
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  “Japan intends to play an even greater and more proactive role than it has until now in making peace in Asia and the world something more certain.”
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