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Japans new defense policies will escalate Asia-Pacific tensions, warns Russia

Japans new defense policies will escalate Asia-Pacific tensions, warns Russia

Published December 22,2022


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Russia on Thursday criticized Japan’s new protection insurance policies, warning that they might escalate tensions within the Asia-Pacific area.

Japan lately shed its longstanding pacifist coverage, pledging elevated protection spending and permitting its armed forces to accumulate “counterstrike capabilities.”

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s authorities is “rejecting the country’s peaceful development” and “has embarked on the path of an unprecedented build-up of its military power, including strike potential,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned in an announcement.

Tokyo is “returning to unlimited militarization, which will inevitably provoke new security challenges and exacerbate tensions in the Asia-Pacific region,” she warned.

“We would like to remind you that we have long been warning about the dangers of Tokyo’s pointed evasion from recognizing the WWII results, which provide the foundations for the modern international order,” Zakharova mentioned.

“After refusing to condemn the misanthropic ideology of the Nazi regime, the main ally of militaristic Japan in that war, at the UN General Assembly, Japan is now taking consistent steps to revive its military potential, which would enable it to attack neighboring countries.”

She identified that Tokyo’s choice to ramp up protection bills by as a lot as 2% of its GDP “was taken amid a less than satisfactory situation in the national economy and the growing structural imbalances in the country’s state budget.”

“This only reinforces the assessment that the Kishida government is prepared to go much further in achieving its military ambitions than the plans they announced, and to get tightly integrated into the US geopolitical games,” she added.

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