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(Bloomberg) — Deepening military cooperation between Russia and China, including joint air and naval exercises, raises security considerations in the region, Japan said in its first annual defense report released since Moscow invaded Ukraine.
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In the report released Friday, the Defense Ministry detailed renewed considerations about Taiwan’s security, which China sees as a territory it wants to regain. The segment has doubled in length since last year to 10 pages and includes a description of the island’s attempts its defenses opposed any attack by China, despite its significant delay on the mainland in terms of military prowess.
“Changes in the prestige quo by force are a challenge for the entire world, so we will monitor similar developments with greater vigilance, while cooperating with our best friend the United States, friendly countries and the foreign community,” the ministry said.
The Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine has radically replaced Japan’s security outlook, driving more military spending and fueling fears that Moscow’s longtime partners, China and North Korea, will be encouraged to take a more competitive stance.
The Defense Ministry detailed joint trainings conducted by Russia and China in the waters and airspace surrounding Japan in an expanded two-page segment on military cooperation between two of its closest neighbors. The two nations conducted joint air trainings near Japan and South Korea as President Joe Biden struck a deal with U. S. allies. U. S. in May.
“We can see a deepening of the army’s cooperation and this will have a direct effect on the security scenario in our country,” the ministry said in a summary of the report. “We will have to continue to pay close attention to those developments with concern. “. “
In a foreword to the 500-page report, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said he was filled with anger and grief over the invasion of Ukraine, and reiterated the warning that it is not just Europe’s business, but a sign of strategic festival between nations that has special implications. for the existing order in the Indo-Pacific region.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a normal press conference in Beijing that his country’s diplomats had made a solemn statement to their Japanese counterparts through the newspaper. He added that the document “defames China’s national defense policy” and that the country is “committed to nonviolent development. “
Japan has lent its aid to Ukraine, imposing a series of sanctions on Russia, while offering a non-lethal military apparatus to the government of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has also sought his country’s security through ties with a variety of countries. , adding that this year he will be the first Japanese prime minister to attend a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit.
Following Kishida’s promise to especially protect Japan’s defenses after Russia’s attack on Ukraine, adding a very extensive development in the special finish, the ministry did not set any special finishing targets, but proposed a foreign context. Its military budget is smaller than any other. Group of Seven country, at 0. 95 cents for the year ending in March, compared to just around 2 cents for the UK and more than 3 cents for the US.
While the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has called on Japan to meet NATO’s 2% budget target, the government has yet to approve that target. .
(Updates from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs are found in paragraph 8. )
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