Perhaps most significantly, in 2021, Tokyo spoke out publicly for the first time on Taiwan, reflecting the conclusions of a Defense Ministry white paper that concluded that the regional balance of power was shifting dangerously in China’s favor. Kishi declared that Japan had an obligation “to protect Taiwan as a democratic country,” while Japan’s deputy prime minister Taro Aso warned that an attack on Taiwan, or “various situations, such as not being able to pass through the Taiwan Strait,” would pose “an existential threat” to Japan, which would “need to think hard that Okinawa could be
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