China vs. Japan

[Erich]

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13 September

CHINA
A top Chinese general (DepSecGen Central Committee CPC) has ordered the country's navy to accelerate training and technical upgrades to boost its war-fighting readiness as it “faces a complicated and difficult security environment”.

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JAPAN
Ruling coalition likely to deliberate revising the interpretation of the nation’s right to collective self-defense in the Constitution … The United States would welcome a lifting of the ban on exercising the right of collective self-defense as well as Japan playing a bigger role in the international community.
(rmks: expect harsh propaganda from China, but also internal opposition)

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