Last week's tempestuous pissing contest in Davos, which The FT's Gideon Rachman notes, left people with the belief that "this is not a situation that is getting better; it is getting worse."
Following Abe's analogies to WWI, China's Yi compared Abe's visit to the Yasukuni shrine to Merkel visiting the graves of Nazi war criminals and as the rhetoric grows the US has asked for reassurance from Abe that he will not do it again.
So we have two countries, each building up their militaries while insisting they must do so to counter the threat of their regional rival .... http://www.blacklistednews.com
