shifting its forces to new outposts. One likely home for new US. bases: Australia. Japan could also contribute to ASEAN's security boosting its foreign aid. Canberra and Tokyo might not go along with such notions, Betts concedes, but that would only mean that they "do not see more reason to bolster the Western position in Asia than Washington does."
What Matters Most? "The Real National Interest" by Alan Tonelson, in Foreign Policy (Winter 1985), 11
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