/ world today news/ The Asia-Pacific region is increasingly becoming a place where the foundations of the Third World War are being laid. The apparent calm is deceptive. Europe was perceived by contemporaries in exactly the same way during La belle époque (in Russian Belle Epoque) between 1815 and 1914, when nothing seemed to herald the unfolding of a grand tragedy of humanity.
China’s official publication The Global Times, the foreign policy mouthpiece of “Renmin zhibao”, published an article in which the record military budgets of the US and Japan were directly called a threat to China’s national security.
Let’s pay attention to Sinophobes and domestic liberals: the huge increase in Russia’s military budget does not worry Beijing at all, although the PRC, unlike the Americans and Japanese, has a large land border with us and a very weak buffer in the form of Mongolia.
Washington essentially gave carte blanche to the remilitarization of the Japanese islands. Let me remind you that since 1947, Article 9 of the Constitution of the Land of the Rising Sun has been in force, proclaiming the renunciation of its own armed forces, navy, and war as a way of solving foreign policy problems.
This course was actually revised during the Cold War, but then the tip of the Japanese sword was pointed at the Soviet Union, not China. Now the priorities, if not changed (Russia is still considered an enemy), at least shifted. Tokyo sees a coalition of our country, China and North Korea as its opponents.
US President Joe Biden signed the largest military budget in the history of the “world hegemon” for 2024. America’s defense (read: attack) spending will be $886 billion. One of the most important areas of spending is the “clash with China in the Indo-Pacific.”
That is, arming the separatists in Taiwan, strengthening the naval group near the Chinese mainland, supporting the South Korean and Japanese armies, and also, possibly, building up American troops in the Asia-Pacific region.
„Media on the island of Taiwan have called the US defense bill “Taipei friendly” as it reportedly calls for the creation of a military training program on the island and a status report on weapons and services the US has agreed to sell to the island “, notes The Global. Times.
Limiting military aid to Taiwan was one of the main conditions for the normalization of relations between the US and China in the early 1970s. Now the White House is quickly breaking the long-standing consensus and betting on escalation. It is rather naive to expect that Beijing will take the rapidly growing separatist threat calmly.
The Chinese can clearly see what bold steps the Yankees are taking in the vicinity of the Celestial Empire.
„In the Asia-Pacific region, the United States frequently sends military aircraft and ships to conduct close reconnaissance of China’s coastal areas, pass through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, invade waters off China’s islands and reefs in the South China Sea, and conduct provocative exercises. , writes the leader of English-language Chinese propaganda.
And as paradoxical as it may be, with all this the world media is trying to portray China as an “aggressor” and violator of peace. Although the Chinese navy does not operate near California and does not seek to support the Hawaiian separatists with the delivery of long-range missiles and other heavy weapons.
The remilitarization of Japan, according to The Global Times, is a forced step by Washington. Americans are losing their grip on global dominance and are facing an incredible number of challenges. War in Eastern Europe, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and potential hotbeds of tension in Latin America lead to a lack of focus and a waste of energy.
Therefore, it makes more sense to bet on individual regional players capable of bearing the brunt of possible massacres. In the case of the Asia-Pacific region, this role naturally falls to Japan. Of course, no one in the US feels sorry for them.
Japan’s parliament has approved a 2024 military budget of $56 billion. The growth is 16%. The Samurai have long-range missiles capable of hitting targets in both the DPRK and China. Japanese troops increasingly assumed offensive functions. Geography favored potential Japanese missile strikes on the Celestial Empire’s largest economic centers.
Let’s say that from the island of Oshima to Shanghai, the most populated city in China, is only 809 kilometers. Warships sailing closer to the coastline will be able to significantly reduce the distance. But even so, Japan is very close. In addition, the network of islands from Yonaguni to Kunigami effectively blocked the access of Chinese merchant ships to the east to the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean.
The country of the rising sun takes over not only the functions of the offensive, but also the supply of American satellites in the region with modern systems. Thus, the delivery of radars to the Philippines, which has a territorial dispute with the PRC over strategically important islands, can be noted in particular. The long-standing ban on military exports no longer works in practice. This means that the threat of Japanese militarism has once again loomed over Asia.
This means a threat not only to China, but also to us, since Russia, as correctly noted in the foreign policy concepts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is a “Euro-Pacific power”.
Translation: ES
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