SINGAPORE — Japan’s defense minister has pushed back against Chinese allegations that Japan’s push to broaden regional defense cooperation was “new militarism,” saying that Tokyo’s increased defense spending and broader regional footprint has been conducted in a transparent fashion with regional security in mind.
Speaking on Sunday at the Shangri-la Dialogue security conference in Singapore, Shinjiro Koizumi noted that Japan did not possess nuclear…
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