韩国已经和美国加强了军事同盟，日本先前要求美军空军基地撤出冲绳，如今也重投美国的怀抱。 在亚洲诸国中，印度、越南，印尼和菲律宾都和美国走得更近了。
South Korea has tightened its military alliance with the US, Japan has backed away from a move to get the US to move its Marine airbase out of Okinawa, and India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines, among others, have drawn closer to the US.