BREAKING: 🇯🇵🇨🇳🇹🇼 Experts warn that Japan under Sanae Takaichi, who now holds a supermajority, is set to dramatically rebuild its military power, marking a sharp shift away from decades of post WWII restraint.
China views the move as a direct threat, especially as Japan has declared it would support Taiwan if China launches an invasion.
Analysts say Japan is preparing for a far more assertive regional role, raising tensions across East Asia.
🇯🇵 Japan is relaxing its arms export rules ending decades of post war pacifism.
With a $60 billion dollar defense budget the country is now opening its advanced military industrial complex to the global market.
Companies like Toshiba and Mitsubishi are already on a major hiring spree and expanding factories.
As a result, they are expecting defense sales to surge more than 50 percent by 2031.
First concrete steps include sending second hand missile frigates to the Philippines to counter China in the South China Sea, launching joint electronic warfare and anti drone projects with Poland, and forming a new drone manufacturing partnership with Ukraine.
Source: @visonergeo
A revealing detail on NHK World Japan. Taiwan has developed advanced AI reconnaissance drones and explicitly removed every single component made in China to ensure total security. They are also deploying explosive armed drones to counter Beijing.
🇨🇳🇯🇵 Japan just sailed a warship through the Taiwan Strait without asking China for permission.
China’s Foreign Ministry is furious, calling it a ���deliberate provocation” that seriously damages bilateral ties.
Japan's PM has already warned that any Chinese military action against Taiwan, especially involving warships and force, could become a “survival-threatening situation” for Japan.
Turns out Japan has a navy and isn't afraid to use it anymore.
Source: @War_Radar2
⭕️ The IDF can now reveal that the IRGC’s Air Force Headquarters, the main command-and-control center used to direct the regime’s air force activity, was targeted during wide-scale IDF strikes on dozens of Iranian terror regime targets.
BREAKING; US preparing TAIWAN for war with CHINA!!
U.S announced a massive new arms package, the largest in history, for TAIWAN. The package, worth over $11 billion, is likely to infuriate CHINA and is set to include:
- The U.S. Armed Force’s Tactical Mission Network (TMN)
- 82 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS)
- 420 MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS)
- 120 M109A7 “Paladin” Self-Propelled Howitzers and M992A3 Carrier Ammunition Tracked Vehicles
- 1,545 Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) 2B BGM-71F-7-RF Missiles
- 1,050 FGM-148F “Javelin” Anti-Tank Missiles
- Seekers and Repairs for Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles
- ALTIUS-600M and 700M Loitering-Munition Systems
- Spare and Repair Parts for AH-1W “SuperCobra” Attack Helicopters
Japan has made it clear, it will not bow down to the Chinese aggression!
Instead, Japan has doubled downed it's efforts to strengthen it's defense capabilities.
After deploying missiles on Yonaguni Island, just 110 kilometers from Taiwan, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force is preparing to install laser weapons on its combat ships.
The ship JS Asuka has already been equipped with a 100-kilowatt laser system. @DrewPavlou@yeshuaformosa@AaronMatthew_L
NEW: For the third time in three weeks, China’s Coast Guard entered restricted waters near Kinmen, according to Taiwan’s Coast Guard.
The vessels were shadowed throughout the incursion, which lasted approximately two hours.
🇨🇳 CCG vessels involved: 14605, 14515, 14606, and 14609.
"JAPAN MILITARILY THREATENING CHINA"
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his German counterpart, Johann Wadephul, that Japan is posing a military threat to China, not the U.S..
China's claim was made amid escalating tensions following recent military incidents and Japan's stance on Taiwan.
Wang Yi also stated that Japan's actions and remarks were "entirely unacceptable," "directly challenge" the postwar international order, and "present significant risks to peace in Asia and globally."
Wang Yi called on Japan to exercise "greater caution" and insisted that it promptly stop what he referred to as "slander and defamation."
I don't think Japan will back down.....
Japan has made it clear that they are prepared to defend Taiwan.
@skdkk_95@KhaosodEnglish are you sure those are civilians? why did you put the rocket system next to civilian houses? you are a violator of international law and cause war crimes to civilians on both sides, your PM Hun Manet and Hunsen must be brought to the ICC 😁🤣😆
https://t.co/XwPFGnRfyY
A Multiple-Launch Rocket System (MLRS) with the Royal Cambodian Army, possibly a BM-21 or RM-70, seen destroyed earlier today following a strike near the border with Thailand.