Anonymous13 days ago
At the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue, Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi rejected China's accusations of "new militarism" and pointed to Beijing's own rapidly expanding nuclear and conventional arsenal. The exchange masks a deeper transformation: Japan is undertaking its largest military buildup since World War II, doubling defense spending to 2% of GDP, acquiring long-range strike weapons, and forging new security partnerships across the Indo-Pacific — moves that split domestic opinion and alarm neighbors still marked by wartime memory.