Note:
(a) India Gives Go Ahead for SCO Membership. Press Trust of India, Aug 18, 2011
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-gives-go-ahead-for-SCO-membership/Article1-734622.aspx
(external affairs minister S M Krishna "'totally ruled out' that any country could exert pressure on India from joining any grouping")
(b) Ministry of External Affairs (India)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_External_Affairs_(India)
(is the foreign ministry of India; The current minister is S M Krishna)
Note: 赛德克巴莱 Seediq Bale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seediq_Bale
("Seediq language; literally "A Real Seediq or A Real Man")
(3) 日本新首相被揭非法接受政治捐款. BBC Chinese, Sept 5, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2011/09/110905_japan_pm_political_donation.shtml
("上周五野田内阁成立当晚，右派报纸《产经新闻》率先报道，野田接受在日韩国人政治捐款16万日元（约2000美元）")
(4) North Korea's Kim Does Not Trust China: US cable. AFP, Sept 5, 2011.
http://news.yahoo.com/north-koreas-kim-does-not-trust-china-us-061117176.html
My comment: N Korea's KIm received Hyundai chairwoman Hyun Jung-Eun on Aug 16, 2009. This US cable was dated Aug 28 following.
(5) Lee Tae-hoon, Will Jeju Naval Base Trigger Arms Race in Asia? Korea Times, Sept 5, 2011
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/09/205_94233.html
Quote:
"It [the proposed naval base] is capable of housing more than 20 warships, including three Aegis destroyers, and mooring two cruisers or an aircraft carrier, according to a military source.
"Both Korea and China claim that their EEZ should stretch beyond 200 nautical miles from their shorelines on the ground their continental shelf stretches to the Okinawa Trough in the disputed area.
Note:
(a) The report states, "Also known as Socotra Rock, Ieodo is located 149 kilometers southwest of Korea’s southernmost island of Marado and 247 kilometers northeast of the nearest Chinese island Tongdao."
(i) Leodo Rock (Korean name) 離於島 = Suyan Rock (Chinese name) 苏岩礁
(ii) Marado
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marado
(馬羅島; a treeless island 8 km off the south coast of Jeju, in southernmost South Korea)
(iii) Tongdao 童岛 (中国舟山群岛最东侧)
(b) Baengnyeong Island 白翎島 (meaning white wing island) and Yeonpyeong Island 延坪島 are near N Korea demarcation line. See the map in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baengnyeong_Island
(c) The report finally states, "Korea’s defense budget stood at $24.5billion last year, which was only a fraction of the $78 billion and $45.6 billion that China and Japan spent respectively in that year, according to the 2010 Defense White Paper" of Japan.
Taiwan's defense budget is a little more than $10bn.
Taiwan. US Department of State, undated.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35855.htm
("Central budget proposed (FY 2011): NT $1.789 trillion (U.S. $62.79 billion). Defense proposed (FY 2011): NT $297.2 billion (U.S. $10.43 billion), 16.6% of entire budget, or 2.73% of Taiwan's GDP. GDP (2010): $430 billion)