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Rethink," Financial Times, January 26, 1999, p. 6.

86. Security Strategy 1998, p. 10.

87. Gwen Robinson, "Defense Spending Cuts

`Threaten Asian Stability,'" Financial Times,

February 24, 1999, p. 6; and Tim Smart, "Cutbacks

in Asia Take Toll on U.S. Arms Industry,"

Washington Post, November 26, 1998, pp. B1, B24.

88. Under Secretary of Defense, "China in the Near

Term," August 1­10, 1994 (photocopy).

89. Dori and Fisher, pp. 43, 45, 53.

90. Security Strategy 1998, pp. 42, 44. One reason for

some of the improvements may be America's per-

ceived tilt toward China, which has worried Japan,

in particular. Ted Galen Carpenter, "Roiling Asia:

U.S. Coziness with China Upsets the Neighbors,"

Foreign Affairs 77, no. 6 (November­December

1998): 1­6.

91. Quoted in Security Strategy 1998, p. 4.

92. Cohen, p. 5.

93. Nor is it a radical notion. See, for example,

Carpenter, "Washington's Smothering Strategy";

Edward Olsen, "A Northeast Asian Peace

Dividend," Strategic Review (Summer 1998); and

Chalmers Johnson and E. B. Keehn, "The

Pentagon's Ossified Strategy," Foreign Affairs 74, no.

4, (July­August 1995).

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