2026-09-17 · South China Morning Post
🔮 Warning against Japan’s military build-up surfaces at Beijing Xiangshan conference
Chinese scholars say Tokyo’s security expansion and US ties could trigger regional instability
Japan might raise its midterm budget to 3-3.5 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product in line with Nato and other US allies, Bloomberg reported earlier this week, as the US pushes its allies in Asia and Europe to boost their own defences. mixed