1/2: #Japan: The new missile arsenal for 2026. Lance Gatling, principal of Nexial Research based in Tokyo, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
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1/2: #Japan: The new missile arsenal for 2026. Lance Gatling, principal of Nexial Research based in Tokyo, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2023/04/11/japan-signs-28-billion-deals-for-long-range-missile-development/
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| 0:41.2 | My colleague and friend Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, |
| 0:44.5 | to Tokyo, to Lance Gattling, principal of Nexial Research. |
| 0:49.0 | The story is that the People's Republic of China |
| 0:52.1 | has consistently threatened Taiwan with invasion, brutality, |
| 0:56.4 | and the kind of endgame that we see in Hong Kong. |
| 1:00.4 | You will no longer be free. |
| 1:03.2 | At the same time, Japan, a strong ally of the United States, has answered |
| 1:08.2 | over several years to say we will participate in the defensive Taiwan. |
| 1:14.3 | There are other things to measure in East Asia, Australia, |
| 1:17.6 | Philippines, Vietnam. But Japan is the centerpiece of the preparation for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, |
| 1:25.9 | and perhaps dominating the South China Sea, reaching all the way to Japanese territory. |
| 1:32.8 | So we turn to the headlines from Tokyo of great significance. |
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