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What if the communists won all of Korea and in response the United States deployed nuclear missiles in Taiwan, leading to closer cooperation between Moscow and Beijing and thus preventing a Sino-Soviet split from ever occurring. Could this lead to Japan's constitutional Article 9 being amended to allow a proper military force and foreign deployment, but only when part of collective "peacekeeping" efforts? And would the US be willing to build up a Japanese fleet in the Pacific to be a check on a more built up PRC navy and Soviet Eastern Fleet (perhaps with the Japanese NATO fleet being to the US missile base on Taiwan what the British Army on the Rhine is to NATO missile bases in Western Europe?)?

And what effects might having a proper army, if only under the auspices of NATO, have on post-war Japanese society? Might it radicalize certain elements even further and create a terrorist problem that results in West German style police special forces unit being formed for counter-terrorism purposes?

What might India and other democracies in that part of the world have to say about the Japanese NATO fleet?
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