Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China, left, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India on Friday in Hanoi, Vietnam. India is promoting itself in the region as a counterweight to China. Pool photo by Barbara WaltonChina’s Fast Rise Leads Neighbors To Join Forces -- New York Times
HANOI, Vietnam — China’s military expansion and assertive trade policies have set off jitters across Asia, prompting many of its neighbors to rekindle old alliances and cultivate new ones to better defend their interests against the rising superpower.
A whirl of deal-making and diplomacy, from Tokyo to New Delhi, is giving the United States an opportunity to reassert itself in a region where its eclipse by China has been viewed as inevitable.
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My Comment: China has the resources, manpower, and (more importantly) the will to be the dominant power in Asia. However .... everyone else in Asia has different ideas .... hence the reason for new alliances and the rekindling of old ones.