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Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is in Tokyo, the last stop on her tour of Asia, which has included a rare visit to Taiwan. China has responded by carrying out the largest military maneuvers in its history around the island. Following talks with Pelosi, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida confirmed that Japan and the United States “will cooperate closely to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.”
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s statement on the close cooperation between Japan and the United States to maintain stability in the Taiwan Strait is clear. Faced with China and Russia, Japan, which calls for the “immediate cessation of Chinese military maneuvers”, is fully committed to its American ally and protector, reports our Tokyo correspondent, Frederic Charles.
The last Japanese island, Yonaguni, in the south of the Ojinawa archipelago, is about 100 km from Taiwan. Chinese ballistic missiles have apparently flown over Taiwan and some have landed for the first time in Japan’s exclusive economic zone. “Japan has lodged a protest with China through diplomatic channels,” Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kish said, citing nine Chinese missiles fired, five of which appear to have landed southwest of Japan’s Hateruma island. On the Chinese side, it is a way to intimidate Tokyo. These Chinese missile launches are a “serious problem that affects our national security,” said the head of the Japanese government.
China’s rise as a power has prompted Japan to reinterpret its pacifist constitution to allow its military to engage in collective defense operations abroad. In the event of a Chinese attack on Taiwan, the Japanese military will provide logistical support to the US Pacific Seventh Fleet.
Japan has already declared that an invasion of Taiwan would pose an “existential threat” to the country. This is because such an invasion would block the Taiwan Strait through which most Indo-Pacific trade passes.
The Japanese feel close and concerned about the future of Taiwan. Most of them are, for the first time, in favor of doubling military spending from 1% to 2% of GDP. The right in power is playing on this concern to promote a revision of the pacifist Constitution.
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