Both are expanding defence spending.
Similarly, China looks askance at India's expanding defence ties with America, South-East Asia, Japan and South Korea.China suspects India of complicity in efforts to undermine its sweeping claim to sovereignty over almost all of the South China Sea.
The two leaders also signed a deal to expand defence and security cooperation after two days of talks at the White House.
Suddenly, as Russia seizes control of Ukraine's Crimea region, they are relishing new-found attention - and with it plans to expand defences from fighter jets to missile systems.
Importantly, this study has not only confirmed that PXR regulates the same chemical defence system in the vasculature as in the liver, but expanded that defence system to include protection against oxidative stress, making PXR a novel gatekeeper for vascular defence.
If, for some, the distinction was not quite clear, Amis expanded his defence in a live interview with Jon Snow on Channel 4 News.
The military's secretive commercial empire and monopoly in certain sectors expanded from defence manufacturing into consumer products such as washing machines, refrigerators and televisions, tourism facilities, soccer pitches, agriculture, livestock, butane gas, slaughterhouses and metal sheeting for construction projects as well as services and land reclamation projects.
The statutory authority defence has recently been subject to legislative consideration in the Planning Act 2008, which expands the defence to over 14 types of infrastructure development.
It is expanding its defence spending rapidly, by 12.6% in the past year, but its armed forces remain less advanced than Japan's constitutionally constrained "self-defence forces".
Last October, the US and Japan agreed to broad plans to expand their defence alliance, including the decision to position a second early-warning radar there by the end of this year.
