A number of American strategists are eager to ring China with a NATO-like defensive barrier, building outward from the US-Japan Security Treaty. Since the final days of the Cold War, the US has been pushing Japan to rearm, and has officially supported a proposed revision of Article 9 of the postwar constitution, which bans Japan from having a military or waging war.
这让美国很为难。一些美国战略家渴望在日美防卫协定之外建立一个类似北约的防御屏障来包围中国。自冷战结束后，美国一直在推动日本重新建立军队，并且公开支持对禁止日本拥有军队或发动战争的战后宪法第九条进行修订。