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Japan’s plans for an anti-China alliance

Photo-illustration: Coral Hoeren (Getty Images, iStock) 
issue 04 February 2023

As the world’s attention focused last month on whether to send tanks to Ukraine, Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, was on a whistle-stop tour of the West. He held various meetings with G7 leaders, including Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden. His objective was clear: to create a new alliance that can counter China.

Japan has been forming a ‘Quad’ with Australia, India and the US on naval manoeuvres 

Japan adopted a ‘peace constitution’ in 1947 when it was occupied by the US, pledging that the country would never again wage war.

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