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It is not hard to imagine circumstances, many in which Japan would be a by-stander, where sea-lanes could be blocked.
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American officials are careful to insist only on freedom of navigation through what are some of the busiest sea-lanes in the world.
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One such means would be for Japan to honor its thus-far unfulfilled, nine year-old commitment to defend its own sea-lanes and airspace out to 1, 000 miles.
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This means vulnerability to interruption due to blockages to sea-lanes from Japan to Australia, to Iran, to Saudi Arabia, to Indonesia and across the Sea of Japan to Russia.
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There may be something it wants to prevent: a threat to the sea-lanes through which pass its vital exports and imports, or a challenge to the existence of some valued ally.
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Hired away from the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, where she was textile curator in its department of Eastern art, Ms. Barnes has researched how textile techniques and designs spread, often disseminated by merchants plying the sea-lanes.
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But China's recent claims over the mineral-rich South China, Yellow and East China seas and its aggressive patrols in vital sea lanes between the Pacific and Indian oceans have sent the not-at-all subtle message that it isn't willing to share power in its backyard.
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China's new naval base on Hainan Island for its nuclear-missile, nuclear-attack submarines and aircraft carriers threatens the critical sea lanes from the Straits of Malacca to our key Western Pacific allies.
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The United States has benefited as much as any other country from the free exchange of goods, the safety of global sea lanes, the spread of democracy and the great-power stability that have characterized the entire post-World War II era.
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To be sure, the great powers in question had every reason to want to ensure their ability freely to use the sea lanes of communication for commerce vital to their economic well-being.
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