Japan plans to remilitarize at lightning speed

[REhorror]

Let's see how it goes.
Kishida this time goes the tax route, and it's going to be a permanent thing and not just Japan - American bond haggling like Abe.

 

[Suika]

Japan is using China as an excuse to shake off US yoke, it's US should really worry, Japan has been waiting for this opportunity for over half a century.

Alliance with US is equally as important as alliance it had with GB before naval treaties forced the end of it. If nothing comes around to force the end of US-Japan alliance, then it will continue.

 

[RealNapster]

Please have some respect to Japan

They face a potential 3-front war: Russia, China and NK.

To be frank, all these three country es have nothing against Japan except the fact that Japan hosts their enemy state army by giving them whole islands. Japan was the top tourist destination for Chinese but then Japan went too far in pleasing it's master and lost that. Also, Japan neither have natural resources nor any other strategic advantage which will force these three countries to attack and colonize it . Japan just need to let go too much influence of it's enemy turned master.

 

[Suika]

China should stop making military threats on Taiwan.

 

[Suika]

 

[beijingwalker]

China should stop making military threats on Taiwan.

Taiwan issue is the result of the unfinished Chinese civil war, what doesn't it have to do with Japan and US? Did China try to intervene The US Civil War?

To be frank, all these three country es have nothing against Japan except the fact that Japan hosts their enemy state army by giving them whole islands. Japan was the top tourist destination for Chinese but then Japan went too far in pleasing it's master and lost that. Also, Japan neither have natural resources nor any other strategic advantage which will force these three countries to attack and colonize it . Japan just need to let go too much influence of it's enemy turned master.

The 3 countries are all nuclear armed, miscalculation with any of them by Japan could spell the end of this island nation.

 

[Suika]

Taiwan issue is the result of the unfinished Chinese civil war, what doesn't it have to do with Japan and US? Did China try to intervene The US Civil War?


The 3 countries are all nuclear armed, miscalculation with any of them by Japan could spell the end of this island nation.

Dumb propaganda talking points is walking China into a wall.

If the Taiwanese want to be part of China, then that is their decision. China has played a poor job in winning the hearts of the people in Taiwan and other surrounding countries. If the US was such the bad country it was, then it shouldn't be hard for China to emerge as a preferred alternative. But they failed to do it. They put one party rule of CCP to a priority far too high in that it results in a China desposition plain untrustworthy.

 

[Beny Karachun]

China shall come out with new law that if Japan acquire nuclear weapon. China will declared war on Japan and invade Japan to disarm this evil.

US had nuclear weapons in Japan, and Japan signed an agreement to let nukes come back whenever needed, in 2022 they talked about making an agreement with NATO to share nuclear weapons once again.

 

[beijingwalker]

Dumb propaganda talking points is walking China into a wall.

Who is dumb? let me ask you two simple questions, first, what's the official name of Taiwan? second, do either US or Japan recognize Taiwan as a country? now let's find who is dumb.

 

[Suika]

 

[beijingwalker]

US had nuclear weapons in Japan,

And US also bombed Japan twice.

 

[retaxis]

Dumb propaganda talking points is walking China into a wall.

If the Taiwanese want to be part of China, then that is their decision. China has played a poor job in winning the hearts of the people in Taiwan and other surrounding countries. If the US was such the bad country it was, then it shouldn't be hard for China to emerge as a preferred alternative. But they failed to do it. They put one party rule of CCP to a priority far too high in that it results in a China desposition plain untrustworthy.

How many times China invade Taiwan? China only threaten ROC if they declare independence

Meanwhile how many countries has US invaded and bombed in last 30years? It sounds like its the truth that the US cut the balls off the japs and now they are either hikikomori or perverts sniffing used underwear. Can't even think with logic anymore.

 

[8888888888888]

Look like Japan will get nuke again, can’t wait to see Tokyo becomes a nuclear waste land with the kind of nukes we have today.

Chinese missiles are advance enough that missile defenses is useless.

 

[Suika]

Who is dumb? let me ask you two simple questions, first, what's the official name of Taiwan? second, do either US or Japan recognize Taiwan as a country? now let's find who is dumb.

The official name is as increasingly as pointless as the following:

Article 9. Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.

Why some keep consuming old ideas is a mystery.

 

[Mista]

Japan is already a nuclear threshold state, but that's too slow should any urgency arises.

Ultimately Japan has to consider developing and deploying ready nuclear weapons because it's likely threats are nuclear powers.

You can't deter hooligans with nuclear power by conventional means. Best example is to look at hooligan Russia and in this thread with posters threatening to nuke Japan.

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Ukraine crisis raises prospect of more states going nuclear: Veteran Singapore diplomat

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is sadly perhaps the final nail in the coffin. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Ukraine crisis raises prospect of more states going nuclear: Veteran Singapore diplomat

SINGAPORE - Russia's invasion of Ukraine is "sadly… perhaps the final nail in the coffin" for the nuclear non-proliferation regime, former top diplomat Bilahari Kausikan says in The Straits Times' latest Conversations on the Future.

"The lesson… many countries have taken away from the Ukraine crisis is that you have to be able to defend yourself.

"And if your likely threat is a nuclear power… I don't think you can deter nuclear power by conventional means; that's a stark fact," said the former permanent secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - currently chairman of the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore.

In North-east Asia, China is modernising its nuclear forces, and North Korea is developing ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) capability, he noted.

It is a matter of time before questions will be asked regarding the efficacy of the United States' extended deterrence - the so-called nuclear umbrella, he said.

French statesman Charles de Gaulle was famously posed the rhetorical question whether, in the event of a nuclear war, New York or London would risk being destroyed to protect Paris, he recalled.

"The answer is obviously, no," said Mr Kausikan. "Similarly, I think quietly, much more quietly, people in Tokyo and so on will be asking similar questions. And I think the answers will be similar, and their actions will be eventually similar to what London and Paris did - acquire nuclear deterrents."

This does not mean Japan and South Korea are eager to become nuclear weapon states, he emphasised.

"I think they know it'll be very politically difficult, politically divisive," he said. "But (the threat from nuclear armed states) is not something that they can avert their eyes from, and hope it will go away. Because China is there. North Korea is there."

He added: "And while they will do everything they can to preserve (the US) nuclear umbrella, they know this is a delaying battle rather than something that can be decisively fixed. I don't know when, but I think the trajectory is set."

Nuclear weapons do not prevent conventional clashes or wars, but keep a lid on them, he noted.

In this respect, while the world will always be a dangerous place, a multipolar nuclear balance in the Indo-Pacific is "in a way a more stable world, because it will put an end, once and for all, once the weapons are developed and deployed, to any dream of hierarchy, whether by China or anybody else", Mr Kausikan said.

"It freezes the existing configurations," he said. "If I look at the countries involved, once you have this kind of complex nuclear balance, I think the tendency will be to reduce the temptation to adventurism."

And small countries would find that kind of multi polarity provides manoeuvring space, he added.

"In principle, this is a better world for small countries, provided… the process of getting from where we are now to where I think we will land can be managed."