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uddu wrote: ↑08 Oct 2025 21:32
....Japan’s new ruling party leader — and likely PM — Takaichi Sanae has proposed a “quasi-alliance” to deter Chinese aggression. That potential coalition would include Japan, India, Taiwan, Australia and the EU. It comes after her predecessor, PM Ishiba Shigeru, talked up the idea of an “Asian NATO”.
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Japan is already part of a QUAD (if it still exists). Why another alliance?
Or does it think that the US is not reliable?
An Asian NATO must keep the whites out. Europe won't & can't fight China. Australia is a US poodle.
Everybody realizes that they have to have a Plan B just in case Trump continues and completes his term.
On a parallel track, Japan & SoKo are deeply engaging strategically completely overcoming all their past animosities and even the new SoKo President is totally on board.