An approaching deadline doesn’t permit me time to pick this apart, so I’ll leave that to you.
A 12 Step Recovery Plan for the US-Japan Alliance by Michael Green and Nick Szechenyi of the CSIS Japan Chair:
1) Don’t give up on Futenma (Yet.)
2) Call a Time Out if the Deal Collapses
3) Damage Control
4) Strategic Dialogue
5) Legislative Linkages
6) A Joint Statement on the 50th Anniversary on the Security Treaty
7) Plan for Expanded Defense Cooperation
8) Forge a counter proliferation partnership
9) Partnering on Regional Architecture I: APEC
10) Partnering on Regional Architecture II: Minilaterals
11) Defining a Green Alliance
12) Restarting the Strategic Development Alliance
If you want more than the terse bullet points read the entire piece here.
