ROGER BOYES
If new candidates try to join the Five Eyes spy club they should expect to get a poke in the eye and may end up blinded. That was the crude warning from Beijing, which is worried that the West is working on new and more inventive ways of containing China.
Even so, the moment has come to expand urgently the eavesdropping alliance of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The first new recruit, the Sixth Eye, should
be Japan, a country that has for decades studiously avoided military posturing but which now has reason to fear that its neighbourhood is turning ugly.
Japan has long expertise on China and Russia — it shared military signals with the United States during the 1969 Sino-Soviet
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