Japan's foreign defense aid to rise 60% in FY2025

Excellent!

And then crying like little babies about having not enough budgets for own defense. Does anyone understand the logic behind, if there is any? lol

Sven AsaiToday 04:01 pm JST

Does anyone understand the logic behind, if there is any?

Yes, it's to help countries that are facing more direct pressure from China (like the Philippines) and those that are in China's broader sights in terms of its aggressive expansion (like the Pacific island states).

By helping such countries defend themselves, Japan not only helps the region -- which is absolutely the right thing to do -- but also helps its own defense as it-

1) spreads the workload across the allies, and also makes China work much harder across a wider area

2) prevents China creating a "beach head" by subjugating these other countries: a position from which it could pose an even bigger threat to Japan

Sven Asai

Isabelle

By helping such countries defend themselves, Japan not only helps the region

Here comes  the US State department, promoting manipulative narratives for the sake of big guns in Wall Street :) China is the villain and the American hero is going to save Japan from a devastating attack in the Asian continent. For these reason you have to keep buying billions and billions of US dollars of American made weapons. And then you wake up and realize why the US financial markets rose to historical records and the top five manufacturers in the world are all American. 

Fact check:

Reality check: United States of America military spending in 2023 was over $900 billions, 3 times as much as China, based on the statistics from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

The U.S. controls about 800 military bases in more than 90 countries worldwide, as opposed to 3 or 4 of China globally. And yet the US military-industrial complex narrative wants us to believe it’s China and Russia that seek world domination and are the biggest threat to world peace, not the United States

The anti-Beijing hysteria is clearly being led by the United States which is not concerned that China will attack other countries, but is worried that its world hegemony is being challenged