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And who is going to start that?

That is why Vietnam and China and Thailand use crazy amounts of antibiotics when growing rice

why doesn't Kishida focus on China and Taiwan instead of Ukraine? Get Japan, Russia and India to form a triangle to surround and contain China. I bet that's what Xi is afraid of the most (I am Chinese American Viet) and he's kissing up to Putin because he doesn't want paranoid surroundings. I love Japan and Hong Kong. Not too hot about Taiwan, but they're a must for chips. America won't be with you this month, we have Trump to deal with. Sorry Japan and Korea. You can't rely on France and England either. Germany is a nerd.

Philadelphia Eagles will be winner since 2017!Go EAGLES

EVERYBODY is aware of China. What else?

i AM VIETNAMESE. Vn in space defense is laughable.

Japanese people are smart but physically cannot war.

Either that or WE CANCEL OUR DEBT TO BOTH JAPAN AND CHINA BY DEFAULTING OCTOBER 18TH!!

America has gone through ten generations of fighting and building our nation to provide security for our people. We have been through trade skirmishes with China and land wars in Asia, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea and Vietnam, all of which did not benefit us. WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO IT AGAIN FOR TAIWAN OR ANYWHERE ELSE. We have enough problems of our own. We have allowed political infighting to the point where neighbor cannot live with neighbor; our borders are unmanageable; racial riots, homelessness, school shootings are everywhere. Its a tinderbox waiting to explode. To Asians, if you want something do it yourselves. We're tired of Japanese Korean Vietnamese complaining all the time. DO IT YOURSELF PLEASE

If Japan wants it done, they can do it themselves. America has 210 trillion in unfunded liabilities to care for.

US has load of its own problems, just saying. Why don't each nation worry about itself first? SHocking but true

N Korea just launched a hypersonic missile against us and we want to pave a way for talks??

Japanese politicians = Nobody at all

How long will the PM last?

The article says "have to quickly"

For Japan to deal w/China is like for a person to deal w a tiger:

you lay a clever trap,

you don't criticize the tiger, certainly you don't tease it

or draw attention to yourself!

China doublespeak w/ regard to Afghan withdrawal and their role in Central Asia? Maybe.... but IMO China is just speaking to its own citizens when its saying these things.

From a Chinese-Vietnamese perspective, they only care what their own citizens think; they don't care what the rest of the world thinks. They don't care about what Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese people think or do behind their backs. They want to have a vestige or decorum in front of them.

The Phillipines will soon join the Quad. LOL

china and vietnam are in virtual coitus. you japanese KNOW NOTHING

Yet no Americans noticed the Suga-Biden summit.

how is a short one year extension a broad agreement

wink, blink and nod is what blinken is really saying

If Japan's navy is four to five times bigger than China's, we need to build more ships? Don't they just have one aircraft carrier while we have the united states navy and even the uk aircraft carrier here? Is this the military industrial complex, japanese version?

Ships cost more in maintenance eventually.

Some republicans stioll believe Trump won, especially vietnamese americans.

That's just dumb. Of course I'm going to take care of my own house first!!!

Vietnamese who don't speak English trust Japan and like working there.

Help Thailand build the Kra Canal,  or China will build it and control it, and our Indo-Pacific strategy will be for nought... Right now , Singapore is reaching capacity, Piracy and accidents have risen on the malacca strait, Thailand is eager but too poor,  and covid has destroyed tourism and too many people in the region are unemployed, looking for work;  The amount of people overfishing live reef food fish, thus destroying sustainable populations alone is enough to get them to build the canal, a win win for Japan, Korea and India.  It could be finished in 5 years and is the oldest infrastructure project planned , since 1664.

It's about building more access from Indian to Pacific Ocean, too.  Japan should help Thailand build the Kra Canal and support Indonesia.  Otherwise,  Indo-Pacific strategy is for nought.  a) Singapore is congested  b)Piracy is up   c)Thailand is poor   d)Tourism is pretty much dead and changed  e)Too many unemployed people in tropics overfishing the coral triangle and kra project could employ 30,000  f0 if US, Japan korea and India won't build it,  China will!