Destabilizing arc of aid

Shinzo Abe is using the country's official development assistance to engineer a quasi-coalition in Southeast Asia

While the right to collective self-defense is in the foreground of public attention, another plan of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is going unnoticed.

He is seeking to revise the charter of the country's official development assistance by the end of this year - the first time in 11 years.