Presumptive House Speaker and Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez paid his last respects to the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday morning, July 12.
Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez pays final respects to the late Shinzo Abe (Facebook)
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SETTING THE AGENDA: Criticized at home for wanting to change Japan’s pacifist constitution, Abe’s frank talk of Indo-Pacific security became a focus in the regionBy Lin Tsuei-yi / Staff reporter in Tokyo
The assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in whom Taipei found a trusted ally is undoubtedly a great loss for the nation.
Throughout his political career, Abe had done much to wake the international community to the threat of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which he worked ceaselessly to prevent.
“A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan-US alliance,” Abe told an online forum held by the Taipei-based Institute for National Policy Research in December last year.
In an opinion piece published by Project Syndicate in April, Abe called on the US to