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Article: Japan: Asia bent on acquiring aircraft carriers.
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- November 3, 2009
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Byline: deepak03
Recent years have seen a flurry of orders for aircraft carriers by Japan, India, Australia, South Korea, Russia and China. The sudden focus on air capability at sea represents a paradigm change in the thinking of these states, and both communist and democratic governments appear to be on the same wavelength. Is this a harbinger of a new cold war in Asia.
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