While it would be nice they wouldn't need nearly as much US help as you'd think.
“While it would be nice they wouldn’t need nearly as much US help as you’d think.”
Wouldn’t it be ironic if we did a reverse Doolittle raid-bomb the Chicoms and land on any available space in JAPAN?;)
Japan would need the US’s nuclear umbrella unless it could assemble a couple on the fly and test one in the Pacific. That would be pretty interesting.