Actually, Japan is conducting its largest military build-up since WWII that “will make the country the world’s third-biggest military spender”.
“TOKYO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Japan on Friday unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War Two with a $320 billion plan that will buy missiles capable of striking China and ready it for sustained conflict, as regional tensions and Russia’s Ukraine invasion stoke war fears.
The sweeping, five-year plan, once unthinkable in pacifist Japan, will make the country the world’s third-biggest military spender after the United States and China, based on current budgets.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who described Japan and its people as being at a “turning point in history”, said the ramp-up was “my answer to the various security challenges that we face”.
His government worries that Russia has set a precedent that will encourage China to attack Taiwan, threatening nearby Japanese islands, disrupting supplies of advanced semiconductors and putting a potential stranglehold on sea lanes that supply Middle East oil.”
“His government worries that Russia has set a precedent that will encourage China to attack Taiwan”
Well your Neocon friends sure as hell didn’t help the Taiwan situation. It’s almost like the Neocons WANT China to attack Taiwan.
...the question is why? Perhaps a new superpower war excites the Neocons? If not, then why are the practically BEGGING China to attack Taiwan.