China upstaged in its own backyard as U.S., Japan do the heavy lifting in Philippines

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The U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington has arrived, its 5,000 sailors and 80 aircraft already busy ferrying relief supplies to storm-battered survivors, and the United States has committed an initial $20-million in humanitarian assistance. Japan is dispatching a naval force of 1,000 troops, in what officials say is that country’s largest disaster-relief deployment.

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China upstaged in its own backyard as U.S., Japan do the heavy lifting in Philippines - The Globe and Mail