Press TV – Dec 16, 2022
A Japanese helicopter carrier, Kaga, trails behind Japanese destroyer Inazuma led by the British frigate HMS Argyll in the Indian Ocean; Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to upgrade the helicopter carriers so they can launch fighter jets. Click to enlarge
Japan has unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War II with a $320 billion plan to buy missiles capable of striking China, thereby flexing its muscles under the US plan to mobilize against their common foe.
It “is my answer to the various security challenges that we face,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was quoted as saying Friday, describing Japan and its people as being at a “turning point in history.”
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government expressed fears that an alleged attack by China could threaten nearby Japanese islands, disrupt supplies of advanced semiconductors and put a potential stranglehold on sea lanes that supply Middle East oil.
Japanese helicopter carrier Izumo, which will be converted to carry F-35s. Click to enlarge
The government also said that in its five-year plan, it would stockpile spare parts and other munitions, reinforce logistics, and develop cyber warfare capabilities.
“The strategic challenge posed by China is the biggest Japan has ever faced,” the strategic paper claimed, adding that another goal of the move is cooperating more closely with the United States and other like-minded nations who see China as a threat.
On this note, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that the overhaul of Japan’s defense policy announced on Friday will “strengthen and modernize” the country’s military alliance with the United States.
China has vastly upgraded its military infrastructure in recent years amid constant US threats and intervention, as well as rising tensions over Chinese Taipei, the South China Sea, and military supremacy in the Indo-Pacific.
China has repeatedly warned the US against extending its military presence in Asia and the Pacific.
Beijing says the United States military presence is a source of regional instability, reminding that Taiwan is an inevitable part of the Chinese territory and is an issue that is purely China’s internal affair, which won’t stand for any foreign interference.
Meanwhile, critics say the US is raking in a huge fortune by profiteering from conflicts around the world, with American-owned arms manufacturers being among the biggest winners.
US major weapons manufacturers, namely, Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics, provide weapons to countries across the globe, making a great deal of money from all over the world by taking advantage of wars and conflicts.
According to a report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) global military spending passed $2 trillion in 2021.
There’s zero point to this buildup, apart from the US Nazi regime demanding it.
If Japan were seriously concerned about China, they’d be making nukes.
Fumio Kishida should look at what happens when a midget like Ukraine takes on Russia.
Xi Jinping is not Putin, and there are no chinese citizens in Japan. They also won’t try to save infrastructure.
Japan must have still got the knowledge it gained from Nazi Germany, and China only has crappy Jewish Marxism, so I would side with Japan. It also has its own proud fighting tradition, e.g. from beating the Mongols when outnumbered
One percent of a big number is still a big number.
Japan allegedly only spends 1% of GDP on its military. BUT: In the mid-1960s, two generations ago, the writer/political gadfly Yukio Mishima was making the case that Japan had the finest and newest armed forces in Asia.
This is probably more true now. In a half-century Japan defeated Russia in the north and (most of) China to the west. They were stopped only because the WWII allies constituted a huge empire by 1943.
And I have no doubt the Japanese have cards they aren’t showing. In 1989 when all the “smart money” in the West was giggling over the tabletop Cold Fusion two men showed at a press conference, Japan surreptitiously began buying up the metals and rare earth minerals necessary to replicate their experiment, and set up an institute to improve on their work. I have no doubt the Japanese have working fusion reactors by now.
Old Samurai saying: “The Hawk Hides His Claws.” And I’ll just bet they are.
Good.
The Japanese culture is infinitely superior to china’s lack thereof, ever since the tribe installed communism, and probably beforehand.
If there ever was a WW3 however, they’d have to ally with the rotten US or be nuked again.
The US has been on the wrong (evil) side of every war, which is why they always won.
International communism is clearly “their” goal however, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see the US go down in this one. Worldwide hell, I mean china, is their plan.
These forces may be paid for by Japan, but they will be under American control (like the new British carriers). They are intended to augment the American fleet. Like Ukraine, Japan will be sacrificed.
Who was it that served the Japanese prime minister their desert on a shoe? Netanyahu, if I remember correctly.
So, who are the Japanese really under the thumb to?
Whatever Japan does they are doing what the powerful jews tell them.
And who financed and orchestrated the great cultural revolution of China?
The powerful jewish bankers would not have done such a thing if there were to be no control over China.
All sounds a bit fishy to me. But what do I know?