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Japan must defend Taiwan if China invades, deputy prime minister says
"We need to think hard that Okinawa could be the next," Aso was quoted as saying.
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"If a major problem took place in Taiwan, it would not be too much to say that it could relate to a survival-threatening situation [for Japan]," Japan's deputy prime minister Taro Aso said at a fundraising party by a fellow Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, according to Kyodo.
A "survival-threatening situation" refers to a situation where an armed attack against a foreign country that is in a close relationship with Japan occurs, which in turns poses a clear risk of threatening Japan's survival.
Such a situation is one of the conditions that need to be met for Japan to exercise its right of collective self-defense, or coming to the aid of an ally under attack.
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While America focuses on internal domestic problems the danger of a major war with china looms ever closer
The japanese statement is encouraging because a strong united coalition confronting china offers the best chance of avoiding armed conflict
If the democracies are united and resolute china MAY back down