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thepersoniamnow
Here we go the balls been rolled, it's all downhill from here. Not that I mind. the worlds a dangerous place and there's a dangerous game being played by the USA and its allies. Looks like China and Russia are teaming up.
innit
It'll be in the first 5 comments, that post by someone who has never been to tohoku, never met anyone from there, never lifted a finger to help people there and knows nothing about the situation who will weep hot fat crocodile tears about people he doesn't care about because Japan giving foreign aid upsets the Japanese = evil narrative in his tiny little mind.
Yubaru
What is the point in extending developmental aid to "richer countries"?
Oh and Japan is still going to be pilloried in the press (foreign) for sending money instead of boots, if and when the need arises.
Stuart hayward
allow funding of non-military operations of other country’s ARMED forces??
dcog9065
It could be in the form of cheap loans, etc.
StormR
Every decent minded country should be contributing in some way to world security, whether that be cash , arms, boots on the ground or bandages and popsicles, the world needs all contributions and contributors.
I see china only interested in throwing money at resource rich places so they can pilfer its oils and minerals.
u_s__reamer
Will these new guidelines for extending aid slide down the proverbial slippery slope to emulate long-standing practices of the US ally,ie., the training of police and security forces, the sale or purchase of instruments of torture, equipment for crowd control, or suppression of populations, training counter-revolutionary forces and other forms of aid and comfort to suppress democratic movements in some of the world's most notorious dictatorships and authoritarian regimes? I fear that Abe as head of a party that is neither liberal nor democratic will make Japan a less safe place to live as a result of his future foreign adventures.
Yoshimi Onishi
Professor Ishi is absolutely right. Once aid (money) is given, it's all up to its receiving-end to use it for whateverway they think is necessary. This so-called foreign aid could very well end up helping its receiving-end kill innocent people abroad. Like someone says, with Abe as head of the government, it's all downhill from here.
SenseNotSoCommon
what for?
Of course!
Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
CH3CHO
Abe's argument is always unrealistic. What kind of military would accept "non-military aids" from a foreign government?
This is his foot-in-the-door tactics based on most unrealistic imaginary situation to get through what he really wants to do. Same tactics as when he got through the collective self-defense.
Serrano
How about approving Jietai to join a coalition of the willing to wipe out Islamic State? No good?
Supey11
This is military aid, period.
Let's say A country has $1 billion for its security issues, and they budget this into $200mil for weapons, $200mil for equipment, $200mil for soldiers, $200mil for logistics, and $200mil for humanitarian relief.
Then lets say Japan donates $200mil (just a random number) for humanitarian relief. Does this now mean the country now has $400mil for humanitarian relief? Really? More likely they will they still allocate the $200mil originally budgeted (thank you Japan) and then use what they would have used elsewhere.
Serrano
So, having the Japanese military joining a coalition of the willing to wipe out Islamic State's ability to wage war is no good?
Frederick Leach
Oh No this is really bad , it does not matter if it's just aid the terroist's now will target japan now for sure, haruna and goto died because of that now japan makes it official, that puts japanese in danger , good job abe
Frungy
... and how is this a change? Japan has been funding the U.S. military for nearly half a century. They pay for the oil for U.S. carriers, the upkeep on U.S. bases in Japan, and give a large "no questions asked" cash donation to the U.S. military every year.
Or are we to believe that before this time the Japanese donations to the U.S. military were illegal?
Wc626
The ole' checkbook policy again. Japan can make it sound pretty and humanitarian, but in the end it is what Stuart hayward says.
Thumbs up to Stuart.
terminaterhjw
Playing on words, not convincing at all.
itsonlyrocknroll
TR, naughty, naughty, journalistic licence cannot be an excuse for mischief making hyperbole. My Great Grandmother would reach for the carbolic soap, mouths would be washed out for such insinuation. Non military aid, as Yoichi Ishii, professor emeritus at Kanagawa University, knows full well can only be utilised for non military purposes, the giveaway is 'disaster relief should be considered on a case-by-case basis'.
nath
After looking at the various comments on here in my mind Japan is rolling their dice here on foreign aid. But if given to the right people for the right cause, there should be no worry.
Wulfe N. Straat
Global security is important, especially in the light of China's aggressive posturing vis a vis Japan. But, it need not be so. Today, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) published an assessment on the weaknesses of the PLA in any future military conflict. These weaknesses are many, ranging from logistical debilities to insufficient strategic capabilities to deficiencies in naval air defense and antisubmarine warfare, as well as qualitative shortcomings in such domains as space and cyberspace.
In the final analysis, the PLA appears incapable of conducting information-centric, integrated joint operations, which are required to fight and win any sort of war under “informatized” conditions,” such as will be required during the Battle of the Senkakus in 2017. In that conflict, the Japanese war machine will inflict massive, even existential, damage to the PLA’s outdated command structures, specifically in the PLAAF and the PLAN, thus “breaking the back” of the PLA itself and bringing about the dissolution of the CCP.
Until then, the economic and politically oppressive conditions prevailing in China will be sufficient to sap the will of the Chinese people for any future adventurism, empire-building and military overreach. Disintegration of the PRC has permanently set in, with the colonial territories already demanding self-rule through terrorism. This latest version of the Middle Kingdom is already crumbling into its constituent parts, including the new Han countries of the Yellow River Federation, the Yangtze People’s Republic and the Oriental Pearl.
The inability of the PLA to conduct any sort of regionally based war is well known to most analysts, both in and out of China. Since future progress of the global economy through the 21st century is dependent on the cooperation of all its member states and since the PRC has proven itself unwilling to abide by the existing structures in providing world-wide material benefits to all peoples and nations, it has become necessary to terminate the CCP.
Xi has been summoned to the US under IMPERIAL COMMAND. He is coming to the EMPIRE to be told to remove himself from all positions of power and to remain simply as the powerless figurehead of China. He will either do this...or China will die with him. If war should come because of his arrogance and intransigence, the may the Han, the Tibetans, the Mongolians, the Uyghurs, the Manchurians, the Hong Kongers, the Taiwanese, the Macauans all live well and prosper after the trial and execution of that most foul dictator, Xi Jinping.