Japan is preparing military aid for the Philippines to help secure sea approaches and safeguard Taiwan s western flank, officials say, deepening security ties that could bring Japanese forces back there for the first time since World War Two.
TOKYO, June 16 (Reuters) - Japan is preparing military
aid for the Philippines to help secure sea approaches and
safeguard Taiwan s western flank, officials say, deepening
security ties that could bring Japanese forces back t.
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Japan is preparing military aid for the Philippines to help secure sea approaches and safeguard Taiwan's western flank, officials say, deepening security ties that could bring Japanese forces back there for the first time since World War Two. As it steps back from decades of pacifism, Tokyo worries that the Philippines is a weak link in an island chain stretching from the Japanese archipelago to Indonesia through which ships must pass going to or from the Pacific Ocean. Chief among the Japanese military's concerns is a Chinese attack on neighbouring Taiwan that could spark a wider conflict, with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warning that Ukraine today could be East Asia tomorrow.
Japan is preparing military aid for the Philippines to help secure sea approaches and safeguard Taiwan's western flank, officials say, deepening security ties that could bring Japanese forces back there for the first time since World War Two.