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AIDAN SMITH-FAGAN WRITES — Japan’s Defense and Deputy Prime Ministers have both recently affirmed their government’s willingness to defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion from the Chinese mainland. Those statements also coincided with a recent report from the Financial Times detailing joint US-Japanese military exercises in the hotly contested South and East China Seas. The ministers’ statements were likely a response to China increasing the intensity of its military aircraft incursions in Taiwan-controlled airspace. “If China attacks Taiwan, Japan would be involved as Taiwan and Okinawa are very close,” says Professor Tetsuo Kotani of the Japanese Institute of...
