The US and Japan are planning the biggest upgrade to their security alliance since they signed a mutual defence treaty in 1960 in a move to counter China.
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will announce plans to restructure the US military command in Japan to strengthen operational planning and exercises between the nations, according to five people familiar with the situation.
They will unveil the plan when Biden hosts Kishida at the White House on April 10. The allies want to bolster their security ties to respond to what they view as a growing threat from China, which requires their militaries to co-operate and plan more seamlessly, particularly in a crisis such as a Taiwan conflict.
US leadership could potentially ‘commute’ from Hawaii to Japan for this in peacetime, but they’ll need some kind of full-time joint staff based in Japan to plan, facilitate, and build trust with Japanese counterparts for a practical set of bilateral missions,” Schoff added.
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China having a mutual defense agreement with DPRK is why I advocate for the US to share nukes with ROK, like in the UK Trident sharing arrangement. China must be held at risk of nuclear retaliation by multiple parties with independent launch authority.
By giving allies nukes, the US basically exonerates itself from ever needing to defend those allies in the first place.
We don't talk about needing to retaliate on behalf of the UK or France, because the US let them develop nukes - in the case of the UK, their current arsenal is 100% reliant on the US continuing to share Tridents.
If South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan had their own nuclear SLCMs in submarines on deterrence patrol, the US wouldn't even have to worry about defending them, because it would be completely irrational for China or DPRK to attack nuclear armed states.
This is overdue. China is a real threat to Japan and has threatened to make Japan "the nuclear exception". That means that normally they would not use nuclear arms against a non-nuclear state but because of the past history of Japanese/China relations they would make an an exception to that rule in Japan's case if it interfered in its relationship with Taiwan. That exception is ostensibly because of the wars between Japan and China in which China was invaded by Japan and the Chinese government claim 8 million Chinese deaths as a result. There is a propaganda video setting out this principle and I'll post a link if I can find it.
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