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#Ukraine: #Japan: #PRC: Tokyo and the arms race in Asia. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.

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🗓️ 14 January 2023

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#Ukraine: #Japan: #PRC: Tokyo and the arms race in Asia. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-welcomes-japans-kishida-white-174017591.html

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Prime Minister has said, most recently, Qishida, and he's an English speaker as well as

1:17.0

a third-generation politician, a man who lost family members at Hiroshima. He's looking

1:22.6

to host the G7 meeting in May at Hiroshima. So all of the irony is in place. He also represents

1:29.8

the dove wing of the Liberal Democratic Party until the decision to increase Japanese defense

1:36.6

spending to 2% and to rearm. That's what it looks like. Your measure of Japan coming into

1:43.5

the contest with China. Does this create a nuclear arms race in Asia? Or is it possible

1:52.3

that they can contain the build-up to conventional weapons? No matter how violent they are, conventional

1:59.4

weapons are not the end of the world. Good evening to you, Henry.

2:04.3

Good evening. I think there's even chance that the build-up can remain non-nuclear, but

2:13.5

it's only any even chance. We need to pay close attention to what we're doing, not just

2:19.1

with Japan, but with other countries. In particular, and certainly very close in, is South

2:25.9

Korea where the President there announced that he may have to get nuclear weapons to deal

2:31.8

with what he sees as the threat from North Korea, but sub-Solento China as well. There

2:40.7

are things in play. I think the Prime Minister of Japan has been very clear that what's

2:47.7

going on in Ukraine could be the future of what's going on in the future. It fears with

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