Posted on 08/31/2023 6:32:25 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Japan’s defence ministry on Thursday announced it will seek a record $53 billion budget for the next fiscal year on the back of regional tensions driven by an increasingly assertive China and unpredictable North Korea.
The spending jump represents a 13 percent increase year-on-year, adding antimissile systems, more warships and boosting maintenance for a military that long skimped on basic functions.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last year unveiled a major security overhaul including a pledge to raise defence spending to two percent of GDP by 2027, Reuters reports.
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Klaus is getting his angrier world.
This scares the crap out of Red China.
We’re broke and in extreme need to shift strategic manufacturing back to the U.S. instead of being reliant on other nations. Our national interests in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are manufactured product based. We become more secure and economically prosperous by manufacturing the important things here. Over time we can drop the military protection with these countries. We can still be friends and we can still sell them weapons for their defense, but they can pay with their money. We can return our troops home so they can focus on the Constitutionally appropriate defense of America.
Japan and Taiwan should both build a credible nuclear deterrent. Both have the technical ability and fissile material for such. Hell, give them the design for the W88 warhead with 475 kilotons of yield. Even with a credible force they could not defeat China in a nuclear exchange. However, they could make the cost so dear to China they would not go to war.
It should be noted that China stole the design of the W88 in the 1980s. It is not a secret anymore.
Japan
WWI : Ally
WWII : Enemy
WWIII : ?
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