The United States is planning to deploy Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) systems in late 2004 for the purpose of national missile defense against rogue nation attacks. Part of that deployment is the Initial Defensive Operation (IDO), which will include sea-based and land-based BMD systems in the Western Pacific region. If not carefully counterbalanced, IDO risks upsetting the delicate relationship that the United States has maintained with the People's Republic of ...
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