If and when Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, now visiting Guatemala, defies Chinese warnings and meets Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California, defense will almost certainly be on the agenda.
enjoy warm ties, dating back to an unusually amicable colonial experience from 1895 to the end of World War II. Tokyo has become more bullish, following tweaks to its pacifist constitution in 2014, enabling “collective defense” and a major increase in military spending. New assets — marines, F-35 light carriers and, most recently, cruise missiles — are beefing up the national armory.
Broadly, experts see U.S. forces battling Chinese forces in open combat, while Japanese troops and ships protect bases and offer logistic support. “I am sure the government is prepared to give rear-end support, but taking part in actual combat — I doubt it,” said Haruko Satoh, an international relations expert at the Osaka School of International Public Policy.Though war talk in Japanese media has risen, public opinion has been much more reticent, aside from anti-base protests in Okinawa and the Southern Ryukyus.
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