1. Tokyo's Taiwan Conundrum: What Can Japan Do to Prevent War?
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Mochizuki, Mike
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SELF-defense , *WAR , *INTERNATIONAL conflict , *DILEMMA , *RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine, 2022- ,CHINA-Japan relations ,UNITED States armed forces - Abstract
But at the same time, Japan would neither explicitly include nor explicitly exclude the possibility of Japan providing at least rear-area support for US military operations during a Taiwan contingency, as well as permitting US use of its military assets in Japan for the defense of Taiwan. Since the PRC did not exist at the time of the Cairo Declaration and since Japan recognized the PRC government as the sole legal Government of China in 1972, Japan appeared to obliquely accept that Taiwan was part of China. In response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's August 2022 visit to Taiwan, Chinese missile firings, with some landing in Japan's claimed exclusive economic zone (EEZ), vividly confirmed for many Japanese the notion that "a Taiwan contingency is a Japan contingency.". [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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