More generals, less pacific: Japan’s new defence policy
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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A strategy approved today peels back some of the country’s constitutional pacifism; in large part that is because of its tense relationship with a hawkish China. Despite some promising reforms, violence against women remains rampant in India. And our obituaries editor looks back on the life of Britain’s last surviving Dambuster.
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