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Japan is being sucked into the new cold war against China
Despite its famous constitutional commitment to never fully remilitarise, Japan is now participating in US-led war games and spending billions more on weaponry, reports VIJAY PRASHAD
WAR GAMES: Japanese destroyer Asahi (right) joins exercises alongside the US, Australia, Canada and South Korea, in Sagami Bay, south of Tokyo, November 6
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IN early December 2021, Japan’s Self-Defence Force joined the US armed forces for Resolute Dragon 2021, which the US Marines called the “largest bilateral training exercise of the year.”
Major General Jay Bargeron said at the start of the exercise that the US is “ready to fight and win if called upon.”
Resolute Dragon 2022 followed the resumption, in September, of trilateral military drills off the Korean peninsula by Japan, South Korea and the US; these drills had been suspended as the former South Korean government attempted a policy of rapprochement with North Korea.
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