Preview: Japan: Conversation with colleague Lance Gatling in Tokyo regarding the snap election called by the new PM Hideki Kishida, and how the PRC may well respond to the new PM's sturdy national security plans against Chinese predation in the region. Mo
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Bachelor, conversation with colleague Lance Gatling in Tokyo about the new Prime Minister in Japan. |
| 0:07.0 | His name is Isiba, Shiguru Isiba. |
| 0:11.0 | He's a veteran parliamentarian. He has laid out an extremely clear national security plan that is both affordable and Then will China respond? |
| 0:32.7 | Will there be a provocation? |
| 0:34.8 | Lance Gatling gives us his measure. |
| 0:38.8 | More of this tonight. |
| 0:40.9 | Well, it depends on what the Chinese test entails. I suspect that they will take a relatively |
| 0:49.1 | muted approach to this until after the elections they will respond to the |
| 0:55.7 | elections that's kind of what they do they'll have plenty of time after that and |
| 1:01.0 | perhaps we'll have time after the election to see how the Chinese |
| 1:04.0 | react. Certainly they will react. If he gets a strong showing given this rather |
| 1:10.2 | conservative and strong national security platform. |
| 1:15.7 | And he is held, if he has supported in that in the snap election, |
| 1:21.6 | yes, the Chinese will respond. |
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