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Byline: Christian Caryl (With Jonathan Adams and Wang Zhenru in Beijing, Sarah Schafer in Bangkok and Stephen Glain in Washington)
Later this month, the navies of the United States, India, Japan, Australia and Singapore will get together in the Bay of Bengal for one of the largest peacetime joint military exercises ever. Dubbed Malabar 07, the exercise--which will include some two dozen ships, including two U.S. aircraft carriers--stems in part from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent push to strengthen ties with India and other Asian democracies. Abe, who visited Delhi in late August, is pursuing what he calls a "quadrilateral initiative," aiming at a ...