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@Michael Hooper Did China have any nuclear power plant melt downs? Thankfully not unlike Japan which is the focus of this article.

Blinken for Nobel Peace Prize. Let's go!

Maoist rebellion in someplace I have never heard of. Continued ethnic violence in Manipur. Also Kashmir.

Real reasonable. We go from the Russians may have strayed across a hard to define airspace to "let's build nukes!" JT at its best for sure.

Over/under 18 months in the PM Office.

China "invading" Taiwan is akin to California "invading" Hawaii.

All NATO countries share a similar culture and religion. Focus on Asia and you have many different cultures with religions including Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. Good luck PM Ishiba.

I had no idea the kyde & eric YT channel has been around for so long. Like most channels on YT I eventually feel saturated with it and move on to others. The ones I continue to go back to are Only in Japan and Life Where I am From who recently did a great documentary on the challenges facing small towns and small town residents.

Excellent. Hopefully we will see some initiative from the Ishiba cabinet.

Iwaya said he hopes to meet with his counterpart, Wang Yi, as soon as possible, though nothing had been scheduled.

Puzzle me this @OssanAmerica although I'm sure you will dance around the issue. When the Republic of China served as a founding member of the United Nations and a permanent Security Council Member did the ROC serve as the representative of the island of Taiwan only or of the whole expanse of China stretching from Heilongjiang the furthest east to Xinjiang in the West?

According to UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 the PRC replaced the ROC government in 1971 in the United Nations. Logic suggests that the PRC now represents ALL of China just as the ROC/Taiwan government did up until that date.

It makes me chuckle to think that any regime bottled up on the island of Taiwan would be a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Please explain.

All surrounding countries adhere to the One China Policy. Sadly the USA is doing everything that it can to cause friction and uncertainty across the strait instead of promoting a peaceful resolution of the Chinese Civil War. Sadder still Ishiba may buy into the USA Cold War type thinking as well so patience is warranted.

rest assured that all the Asian nations will fall into line to form a NATO-like alliance

That didn't take long. India rejects Japan’s call for ‘Asian Nato’, despite growing tensions with China https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3280727/india-rejects-japans-call-asian-nato-despite-growing-tensions-china?utm_source=rss_feed

Actually this is the major flaw in a parliamentary system wherein the ruling party controls the timing of the election. Japanese will be voting for LDP "fresh faces" and promises not accomplishments.

See the LDP ruling Japan for 95% of the post-WW2 era.

This is a perfectly legitimate democratic means for the people to choice and mandate a Prime Minster, choose governing party.

Taking a page from the Tony Blinken School of Diplomacy. Well done young Padawan Japan.

How about condemning the invasion of a sovereign country based on the UN Charter?

Last I checked Putin was human, also the president of Russia

The animal isn't backing down 

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Such a shocking assessment from ... checks institutional association, Center for Strategic and International Studies. CSIS contributors include Lockheed Martin, Exxon Mobil, Northrop Grumman, Government of the USA, Government of Japan and last but not least, Taiwan. Mind you it is not the Government of Taiwan.

"The rapidly deteriorating security environment in Asia favors more security cooperation with the United States and other partners," he said.

This can't be real. Right? It's just so silly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dbz/comments/1fqj8td/this_is_shigeru_ishiba_on_the_1st_of_october_he/

Eurasia Naval Insight weights in on the "debate". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K30eLMy7Tx4

What a crazy electoral system. You vote on a leader's promises and not his/her actual record.

Biden/Blinken keep sending bombs. Bi Bi continues dropping them on neighboring sovereign countries. Now that's teamwork.

UNCLOS Article 38 - Right of Transit Passage - as it applies to a strait reads:

Transit passage means the exercise in accordance with this Part of

the freedom of navigation and overflight solely for the purpose of continuous

and expeditious transit of the strait between one part of the high seas or an

exclusive economic zone and another part of the high seas or an exclusive

economic zone. 

Do USA Navy and other foreign military vessels turn off all military grade radars, surveillance equipment, etc. when transmitting the Taiwan Strait? This is the real issue. Militaries are notoriously secretive so we will never know the full truth.

That's quite the world salad you have concocted there. Let me know when Chinese naval vessels regularly loiter off the coast near Darwin, Brisbane or Sydney and then we can have a useful conversation.

Why is the region sometimes referred to as Australasia?

What exactly are Typhoon missiles in Australia and NZ going to hit? Indonesian or Fiji fishing boats? I would think an Aussie would understand that Australia is not a part of Asia.

And why not? Let South Korea, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand all install Typhon missile systems as well

It's a dummy warhead. Have at it.

Yes the missiles placed by China in international waters and the ones in other nations EEZ do need to be removed one way or another

My, French Polynesia seems to be much closer to the Philippines than I thought.

The recent missile test by China reportedly hit within 40 km of the location the Typhon system is deployed on

The Biden/Blinken legacy (thankfully we are swiftly coming to the end) will be one of escalation, weapons sales (or a gift in this case) and raising tensions wherever it meddles.

-golf clap-

Nice firewalled content there bud. FT content would need to be scrutinized most closely. Regardless, which country in the world would encourage the use of nukes?

My simple suggestion would be to read more history books and less Reddit hot takes.

What is this odd, repeated narrative about Beijing calling the shots in Moscow? And to suggest that such a thing extends to nuclear weapons policy? I have no words.

Don't worry, China will not allow Putin to use nuclear weapons.

I think some in the EU may have a sense of buyer's remorse.

be a son of a politician, in this case the Governor of Tottori and also a Diet member

graduate with a degree from Waseda or the like

get a cushy job in a bank or one of the large manufacturing companies for a few years to get "real life" experience

run for local election and win

Serious question. What kind of qualities, trainings, studies or political knowledge do all those LDP cronies posses in order to be a Prime Minister