“Although it is true that of the more numerous East Asian contenders, only China has such weapons, the United States has formal alliance commitments to defend three of the countries in competition with China over the islands—the Philippines, Japan, and South Korea—and an informal alliance with Taiwan. Unbeknownst to most Americans, those outdated alliances left over from the Cold War implicitly still commit the United States to sacrifice Seattle or Los Angeles to save Manila, Tokyo, Seoul, or Taipei, should one of these countries get into a shooting war with China.  The United States just interjected itself by flying B-52 bombers through this air space to support its ally Japan.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=4822

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