Joseph Lim Mar 6
🇯🇵's "better" Taro👇
Kono Taro: The End of #Japan's Strategic Complacency
"Japan must rely on ships, unlike Ukraine, which can resupply by rail. W China op'g 55 submarines to our 22, maintain'g maritime supply lines in a crisis wld be extremely difficult. Tt's why domestic prod'n of ammo, missiles, drones, & essential ss is critical.. 🇯🇵& #SouthKorea stand on front lines of an increasingly volatile IndoPac.. consolidat'n of a durable 🇯🇵–🇰🇷 partnership is a strategic necessity"
https://japan-forward.com/kono-taro-the-end-of-japans-strategic-complacency/
Kono Taro: The End of Japan's Strategic Complacency | JAPAN Forward

Facing an uncertain US and assertive China, Japan must strengthen economic resilience and its defense industrial base, says lawmaker Kono Taro.

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#Japan needs to consider offensive potential entailed in "active defense"
"Collective self-defense, judging fr past egs, has often been used as a pretext by major pwrs when invading smaller c'tries, eg Soviet 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Enabling full exercise of #collective #selfdefense wld amount to opening te door to #military #aggression.. self-defense can at times entail boundless offensive potential. #Israel's invasion of #Gaza since Oct2023 made tt point explicit"
https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/71725
OPINION: Japan needs to consider offensive potential entailed in "active defense"

When she announced a snap general election at a press conference on Jan. 19, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi cited proactive fiscal spending, a drastic strengthening of security policy, and the development of intelligence capabilities as among her priorities, issues which have proved divisive among the public.

Japan Wire by KYODO NEWS
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