MILITARY● LOWSep 7 · Sep 7, 2026, 10:00 PM
How Tokyo is widening regional defence ties to complicate Beijing’s Taiwan calculus
South China Morning Post · east asia
The risk of a conflict over Taiwan is shaping Japanese defence planning, with Tokyo shoring up security at home and abroad for a potentially prolonged fight. But there are economic, demographic and political constraints on how far its military transformation can go. In the first of a three-part series, Gabriel Dominguez examines how Japan is building a network of partnerships to strengthen its strategic endurance. Japan is rapidly building a web of defence partnerships spanning the Indo-Pacific...
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