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P#12: Yonaguni Democracy: http://tinyurl.com/9jfw8 TaiwanBMD#0 UN on Gun Trade: http://tinyurl.com/c2o67 Iraq War: http://tinyurl.com/aepx2 A bit cloudy fair cool: up 6:20, 8:20. Tel manager L garage door. Mei back early supper herself. Computer slow from time to time, so to quit past 1:17am. Bed 2:10! #0: "BMD Focus: The Polarization of the Pacific", by MARTIN SIEFF; UPI Senior News Analyst: http://tinyurl.com/9avr6 "" WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Ballistic missile threats and high-tech, U.S-backed programs to defend against them have polarized the nations of the Pacific Rim to a degree unseen since the height of the Cold War. Taiwan had already tested three prototype cruise missiles with a range of 600 miles -- capable of reaching Shanghai to the north and Hong Kong to the south -- and that it had ambitious plans to eventually manufacture and deploy 500 of them against the southern Chinese mainland. Japan, Australia and Taiwan are all led by nationalist, free market, conservative governments fearful of North Korea and/or China. All of them are extremely wealthy, high-technology nations. the ever-growing ties between Taiwan and the United States in BMD cooperation and the readiness of little Taiwan to embark upon a ballistic and cruise missile arms race with gigantic nearby China looks set to keep China and the United States, the two towering giants of the Pacific Rim at loggerheads for many years to come, their BMD arms race via Taiwan makes such a clash ever more likely. ""