This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

I welcome Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs,

returned from Asia, from Japan, from Yukuska, the naval base in the Tokyo Bay.

And what the world looks like from Tokyo Bay when you consider the predator states,

especially the People's Republic of China,

and its ambition to acquire, to annex, to conquer Taiwan, and subdue the region to its sovereignty.

Gregory, a very good evening to you.

The world from Japan point of view.

They have a military commitment to defend Taiwan.

They have a good alliance with the U.S. and until recently we're working

surprisingly well with South Korea and now the contra-tempt there may have changed that

situation. What does the world look like from Tokyo Bay? Good evening to you, Gregory.

Good evening, John. Well, it's certainly not a happy or calm view from Tokyo, largely because of the Korean upset.

What we've seen in South Korea, Republic of Korea, is literally a coup d'etat by Parliament against the President.

This has happened before in the country,

but the coup is between, if you like,

by a very, very left-leaning Parliament

against a Conservative President.

The Conservative President was very, very happy to continue to build the

Western alliance, if you like, with the United States and Japan, and good progress was being

made there. But the parliament is not only pro Beijing, but it's also pro Pyongyangyang and you have this tendency for the leftist politicians in the parliament

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