S8 Ep346: SEGMENT 12: CHINA'S GROWING THREAT TO JAPAN Guest: Lance Gatling (Tokyo), Co-Host: Thaddeus McCotter Gatling assesses the mounting Chinese military threat facing Japan, including naval provocations and airspace incursions. Discussion examines Japan's defe
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
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SEGMENT 12: CHINA'S GROWING THREAT TO JAPAN Guest: Lance Gatling (Tokyo), Co-Host: Thaddeus McCotter Gatling assesses the mounting Chinese military threat facing Japan, including naval provocations and airspace incursions. Discussion examines Japan's defense posture, increased military spending, the importance of the US-Japan alliance in deterring Beijing, and how Tokyo views the security landscape with Trump returning to the White House.
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| 0:56.1 | I'm John Batchel with my colleague and co-hostadish McCar of American Greatness, |
| 1:00.2 | and we're on with Lance Gatling, my informant from Tokyo, |
| 1:06.7 | when we've been discussing Japanese politics, all very exciting with a drummer for prime minister. |
| 1:19.9 | However, the question about China's aggression is implicit in many of the decisions made throughout East Asia, not the least to do with Japan. |
| 1:31.4 | What I need to understand, Lance, is your opinion now of China's aggression towards Taiwan. Is it muting in some fashion? Is it backing off? And the threats against Japan, are they effective? Are they seen as heard very carefully |
| 1:39.4 | by the public or do they shrug them off? The most recent confrontation between China and Japan was occasioned by the new prime |
| 1:51.0 | minister, Takaichi Sanai, in her first official diet function after being sworn in. |
| 2:00.0 | And the new government stood up. |
| 2:02.0 | Her cabinet presented. |
| 2:03.9 | And it was actually in a budget meeting in the lower house. |
| 2:07.8 | It was one of the most important committees in Japan because there is where the ruling |
| 2:15.3 | government and the opposition parties come to agreements regarding the massive Japanese government spending. |
| 2:24.2 | And in the elaborate kabuki, that is Japanese government politics, the question was transmitted to the bureaucracy which prepped Prime Minister Takaiichi to answer the question, |
| 2:40.7 | and she knew that the question was be regarding Japan's policy vis-a-vis China in the event it attacked Taiwan. |
| 2:51.5 | She knew that was coming in not exact detail, but she knew pretty much that there was a |
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