Uh oh.
There really isn’t a better way to respond to Toshi Yoshihara’s troubling new study of Chinese views of Japanese seapower and the shifting balance of power between Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force and China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). This transition has profound implications not only for the defense of Japan but regional stability as well, given the vital role that Japanese maritime superiority has played in assuring U.S. military dominance in the Asia Pacific.
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KEYWORDS
China,
East China Sea,
disputed islands,
South China Sea,
SDF,
China-Japan relations,
MSDF,
PLA,
U.S.-Japan relations,
defense procurement,
Toshi Yoshihara
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