Japan simply has to move production out of China.
No amount of Japanese military buildup will deter the Chinese.
Japan needs to tell the Chinese that we can and will bankrupt you unless you fully respect our national boundaries, which are as follows....
Then it's undoubtedly true.
They will make nice targets.....................
They cannot defend their hegemony.
If they send out a fleet of container ships, our navy is doomed.
Just begging for a Q-ship to start sending these Chinese Coast Guard ships to the bottom. The CCG thinks it is approaching a merchant ship with intent to bully, then its radio is jammed as the CCG ship is hit with a rapid barrage, tearing it apart.
With insult to injury, by the time other Chinese ships show up, there are other merchant ships in the area that are pristine and unarmed, and just happen to have international observers aboard, so any actions taken against them are legally “piracy”.
To keep thing mixed up, the next CCG ship that goes down is hit with a naval mine. Either Russian, Chinese, or North Korean make.
PDJT should send the Chinese our state of the art individual survival at sea after abandoning sinking ship technology...
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“Hornung agreed, suggesting Japan should focus investments in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets to deter and counter Chinese ambitions.”
Great. So Japan is spending money on systems that lack the capability to confront Chinese naval assets directly.
And what do they mean when they euphemistically say “shape China’s behavior”? See these egg-heads don’t even have the courage to speak plainly.