see url:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/japan-must-defend-taiwan-if-china-invades-deputy-prime-minister-n1273196
see full report...but will the USG defend Taiwan and Japan, if the
Chinese invade Taiwan? That is the question for all of them if the
Chinese invade Taiwan...Containment of China by the USG isn't working
too well, and is awfully expensive, it is affecting the USA in all sorts
of unexpected ways...belts and roads might produce a change in
policy...at some stage...perhaps...The US is not the only market for
Chinese goods...
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Japan's deputy prime minister said the country needed to defend Taiwan
with the United States if the island was invaded, Kyodo news agency
reported late on Monday, angering Beijing which regards Taiwan as its
own territory.
China has never ruled out using force to reunite Taiwan with the
mainland and recent military exercises by China and Taiwan across the
Straits of Taiwan have raised tensions.
"If a major problem took place in Taiwan, it would not be too much to
say that it could relate to a survival-threatening situation [for
Japan]," Japan's deputy prime minister Taro Aso said at a fundraising
party by a fellow Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, according to Kyodo.
A "survival-threatening situation" refers to a situation where an armed
attack against a foreign country that is in a close relationship with
Japan occurs, which in turns poses a clear risk of threatening Japan's
survival.
Such a situation is one of the conditions that need to be met for Japan
to exercise its right of collective self-defense, or coming to the aid
of an ally under attack.
"We need to think hard that Okinawa could be the next," Aso was quoted
by Kyodo as saying.
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