5/21 Japan seems to be taking defence more seriously than it used to, and it takes Pacific Islands very seriously indeed, but there is still some restraint.
6/1 In a telegram to the US State Department in 1973, the US embassy in New Delhi stated that “the official Indian policy is consonant with our interest in having a South Asia of stable, independent states where no outside power has an exclusive position.” It went on to say: “All the smaller