Mieko Nakabayashi, a professor at Tokyo’s Waseda University and a former Japanese lawmaker, says that Kishida’s attendance at the meeting is a “turning point” for Japan, which still officially has a pacifist constitution. “Japanese people realize the world is changing and Japan is pretty vulnerable,” she says. “The Ukraine war was so incomprehensible for many Japanese people that it served as a wake-up call. Thehas convinced Japanese people that just being with the U.S. is not safe enough.
As a result, Asia’s delicate security architecture may now be in the process of change. At the Shangri-la Dialogue security summit in Singapore on June 11, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin IIICritics say that’s exactly what NATO risks by expanding its remit beyond a European security mission.YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesQuad security dialogue
—alongside the U.S., Australia and India—and given the keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue, warning “I myself have a strong sense of urgency that Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow.” Had this outreach been made by Japan’s hawkish former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Nakabayashi says there probably would have been more domestic pushback. However, Kishida is perceived as being more dovish than Abe and his rhetoric on defense has more credibility.
Man it seem like countries are picking sides. We tried to warn people that voting for biden could result in world war 3 but sadly some just didnt listen.
Man you guys have an agenda and it's so obvious. Leave you fucking opinions out of your articles.
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