Decades of military cooperation with Pakistan, which shares India as a rival, have flowered into an economicalliance.
他们同印度的对手-巴基斯坦有着数十年的军事合作，而经济合作则让这种关系更加紧密。
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Defenders of the alliance argue that it has done more than keep the peace: it has enabled Japan to keep its military spending low, and attract global status in other ways, notably economic.
In October 1959, just nine months after entering Havana, Mr Castro began the contacts with the Soviet Union that swiftly led to a full-scale economic and military alliance.