How Japan’s pledge to defend Taiwan against China may tip Asia’s balance of power Joe Evans © Provided by The Week
Japan would join the US in defending Taiwan against the “existential threat” of Chinese invasion, Tokyo has announced.
Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said that “if a major problem occurred in Taiwan”, his country would “need to consider seriously” that the neighbouring Japanese island of Okinawa “could be next” in Beijing’s list of targets.
As The Times notes, the pledge to back Taiwan in the event of an attack “signals a shift in policy towards” China by the constitutionally pacifist nation.
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Iran is continuing to develop increasingly long-range ballistic missiles and is firing some shorter-range missiles in combat.
Here s What You Need to Remember: If the Trump administration truly wanted a diplomatic deal to curtail Iran s missiles, it wouldn t have torn up the JCPOA. The administration wants fewer arms-control regimes, even if rolling back decades of painstakingly-negotiated agreements means a much greater risk of an out-of-control arms race that could end with nuclear war.
Iran is continuing to develop increasingly long-range ballistic missiles and is firing some shorter-range missiles in combat despite demands from the U.S. government that the Islamic republic totally give up any weapons that could, in theory, carry a nuclear warhead.