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January 31, 2013

Asia Feels Like Pre-War Europe

Yoon Young-Kwan, The Scotsman

Whether east Asia’s politicians and pundits like it or not, the region’s current international relations are more akin to 19th-century European balance-of-power politics than to the stable Europe of today.

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