What Japan is Doing on Defence

What the Japanese defence expansion looks like and what it means for the region

The Expansion

The Japanese defence expansion -- the specific decision to increase defence spending to 2 percent of GDP by 2027, the specific acquisition of the counterstrike capability whose deployment doctrine the Diet has debated, and the specific defence cooperation agreements whose conclusion has expanded the Japanese security relationship beyond the US alliance -- is the accountability journalism of the most significant Japanese security policy change since the constitutional reinterpretation of 2015.

The Regional Implications

The regional implications: the specific Chinese response whose official statements the expansion has produced; the specific South Korean relationship whose historical tensions the defence cooperation has required managing; and the specific US relationship whose alliance management the expansion has deepened.

Daily Asian News Coverage

Daily Asian News covers the Japanese defence expansion because the accountability journalism of the regional security architecture requires examining the specific policy change whose implications for the regional balance are most significant.

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