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Philip Shetler-Jones

3 months

New version of Godwin’s Law: “As an online discussion about illegal or aggressive behaviour by China or Russia grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Cuban missile crisis or Monroe doctrine approaches 1.”

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2 months

@gabrielmilland Did you not chat much with the locals ? Outside Paris they mostly loathe Macron and what he represents.

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Where are all those commentators who said post-Brexit Britain was going to be bypassed by Washington on security in favor of Paris, Berlin and Brussels?

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If the US was in a war with China, and US lives were being lost, US would cut China off from energy, food, and finance. These are not things Chinese society can long do without, but US is mostly self-sufficient in. China loses fast.

Philip Pilkington

@philippilk

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Looks like the military guys know what’s up. In a war with China there would be a trade embargo. Military manufacturing in the US would grind to a halt almost immediately. But due to a massive competency crisis in DC, they might push for it regardless. 🇺🇸🇨🇳

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Sunak on China threat - interesting list of closest allies: “If you look at the approach of our closest allies on this, whether it’s Canada, whether it’s Japan, whether it’s Australia or the US, our approach to this question is exactly the same”

Rishi Sunak breaks from Macron with tougher line on China

China is a threat to Britain’s economic security, Rishi Sunak warned as he appeared to criticise President Macron’s attempts at a rapprochement with President

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@STWuk Dear @STWuk , have you considered addressing your plea to "stop the war" to the people doing the fighting outside their borders (hint, it is Russia)?

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Amazing how naive leaders like Brezhnev, Putin and Saddam keep falling for these American "traps", isn't it? If a simple LSE professor can see it, why can't they?

Why the US and Nato have long wanted Russia to attack Ukraine

Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine has come at a substantial cost for Russia, with the country so far failing to achieve its military objectives and the Russian economy suffering under unp…

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Don’t all imperial powers go through this psychodrama? De Gaulle said without Algeria, we aren’t France. Some Brits thought similarly about the Raj. It’s wrong but it’s consistent.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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Putin on his endgame: “They [the West] say that they want to achieve the strategic defeat of Russia on the battlefield. What does this mean for Russia? For Russia, this means the end of its statehood. This means the end of the 1000-year history of the Russian state. I think

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@COdendahl Sorry to say it but Germany is the king of implausible excuses for not doing things.

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How is this more efficient than just sailing up through Suez?

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Proposed India-Middle East-Europe trade corridor explained in this video.

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What a brilliant insight. From now on, right after a war breaks out, why don’t we just jump immediately to the peace conference stage, and skip the fighting bit completely?

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

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U.K. Labour MP @jeremycorbyn says there needs to be more momentum for a ceasefire in Ukraine and negotiations to end the war. "All wars end with some kind of peace conference. Let's jump to that stage."

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Japan and Britain to sign a Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) next week, that will will waive requirements for immigration checks when personnel stay in each other’s country and simplify procedures for bringing in arms and ammunition for military training.

Japan, Britain to sign defense pact

Japan and Britain plan to sign a Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) when Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits Britain next week, according to government sources. The pact will set a legal framework for...

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Philip Shetler-Jones

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8 months

Japan is quietly shifting into a role as regional security provider, with the objective of strengthening deterrence against unlawful action and the unilateral use of force in its region.

Indo-Pacific News - Geo-Politics & Defense

@IndoPac_Info

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#Philippines To Grant #Japan Access to Military Bases - Reuters "Proposed PH-Japan military access deal seen to help maintain peace in West PH Sea" — Marcos The Philippines and Japan have started talks on a reciprocal access agreement that would allow the deployment of

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Philip Shetler-Jones

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Quite telling that PRC seems to have concluded that anti-Americanism is the best it can offer the European audiences. Not exactly inspiring performance for the 5,000 years old civilization.

Reinhard Bütikofer

@bueti

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Indeed, Wang Yi tried hard to insult the U.S. while wooing the Europeans. It was so obvious that only completely naïve people (or people that look for any pretext to pander to the PRC) would fall for it.

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Japan plans to supply 155mm shells to United Kingdom 🇯🇵🤝🇬🇧

Japan plans to supply 155mm shells to United Kingdom

The Japanese government plans to supply 155mm artillery shells to the United Kingdom. This initiative is part of Japan's export requirements and strengthens collaboration in the defense sector. This d

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@MacaesBruno Classic Russia. Humiliation 1 (making you bow) is not enough. There is always humiliation 2, showing everyone that you got bowed and still got nothing. Ask Macron.

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@OzraeliAvi I think you have the definition of warmongering wrong. It means encouraging aggression, and self-defence is not aggression.

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“China says it wants good relations with the West. At the same time, Beijing continues to fuel the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War Two. They cannot have it both ways.” Clearly they can, though. Europeans not doing anything to change it.

Speech by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Atlantik-Brücke event

(As delivered)

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1 year

What a bleak testimony. Was this really the mindset the @FCDOGovUK had to look to for leadership ?

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@NiMingda_GG Rubbish

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Tremendous graphic

James Rogers

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What drove #Australia , the #UK and the #US to set up #AUKUS ? What are the geopolitical implications of the group? My piece for #BritainsWorld today, complete with a geopolitical map!

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@b_judah If he thinks CCCP was a success, I hate to imagine what his idea of a failure looks like.

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Future of the Sino-Russian alliance?

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@DerekJGrossman Kuwait 1990

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@MacaesBruno There’s a lot to be said to beating Russia slow enough to forestall escalation, and deep enough to delay recovery of the potential for aggression.

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@MacaesBruno Putin caught in a trap. How do you mobilize Russian population without stoking international measures against Russian population?

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Japan, UK conduct first joint drills since signing security cooperation pact | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

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Prime Minister hosts Japanese PM and agrees historic defence agreement

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak set to sign major defence agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on his visit to London.

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@ElbridgeColby So ROK becomes a base for US operations against China, while shifting the role of defending ROK against DPRK to ROK forces? Wonder how that goes down with Koreans?

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@Joel_P_Atkinson I often hear this logic, but is it really valid? Surely air and missile forces from the mainland can already strike Japan's SLOCS now? Does an extra few hundred km move Eastwards make such a difference?

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@stephenWalt “Russia did start an illegal preventive war” - how is this a preventive war?

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@NiMingda_GG Japan is not remilitarising. It has had a military capacity for decades. It is just upgrading its military power in proportion to what is happening in its neighbourhood.

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@hanskundnani @bctallis People will always differ, but Russian defeat should include (i) out of Ukraine (ii) offensive capacity severely degraded/destroyed (iii) offensive intent deterred.

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@SamRamani2 Looks like the definition of NATO is as elastic as the definition of Nazis.

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@fukumimi I am sure we will see the full scale of destruction in time, but I have been struck by the many videos of structures holding up amazingly well to the force of this quake.

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Japan’s new security strategy: rising to meet the challenge

Japan’s new security strategy: rising to meet the challenge – Britain’s World

Dr Philip Shetler-Jones analyses Japan’s 2022 national security strategy and what it means for its defence and foreign policy

www.geostrategy.org.uk

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@NiMingda_GG DPRK invaded the ROK, and US came in to reverse that. The armistice ended fighting with DPRK back in its borders, so win for USA.

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@adam_tooze WWII wasn’t just about Nazis, remember.

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@battleforeurope I don't think you need to worry so much, judging by how many NATO allies already fail to meet their NATO commitments.

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PLA Officer who asked about @NATO expansion got a clear response from Sweden MinDef: Enlargement didn’t cause Russian aggression. Russian aggression is driving enlargement. Food for thought for anyone worrying about an Asian NATO.

Robert Ward

@RobertAlanWard

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Sweden’s Defence Minister Jonson speaking @IISS_org #SLD23 this afternoon - notes importance of Asia’s waterways for European trade, describes Russia’s ‘imperial ambition’ in Ukraine, says ‘supporting Ukraine is also investing in the global rules-based order’, that upholding the

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Nato planning to open Japan office to deepen Asia-Pacific ties – report

Liaison office plans likely to attract criticism from China which has warned against the western alliance extending into Asia

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First Sea Lord @AdmTonyRadakin "... while we’re at it, - let’s kill another myth. We have the people we need to crew these ships. Recruitment is up. Retention is up. We have 1000 more people than we did a year ago. We have a smaller HQ and fewer admirals."

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If France opposes the ⁦ @NATO ⁩ office in #Japan on the basis of geography, it should explain why it supports similar liaison offices in Africa and the Middle East.

NATO東京事務所、フランスが反対　マクロン氏が「明確に伝えた」：朝日新聞デジタル

　フランス大統領府は7日、北大西洋条約機構（NATO）が検討する東京事務所の開設について、マクロン大統領がNATOのストルテンベルグ事務総長に反対の意向を伝えたと明らかにした。リトアニアで11日に始ま…

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@DerekJGrossman I’d add Bosnia 1995, which I had the good fortune to observe directly.

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Sathnam Sanghera: “People who should know better, ..., sometimes complain about history being “rewritten”. But rewriting history is precisely what historians do.” Excellent ⁦⁦ @Sathnam ⁩

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Strangely contradictory by @philipstephens . UK interests are apparently in “global development” and “the nation’s interests reside above all in a rules-based global order”, but having a global navy uphold freedom of navigation is somehow ‘Nostalgia’?

Nostalgia is no substitute for a post-Brexit foreign policy

The UK has plenty to contribute to global security but first it must be comfortable in the present

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UK and Japan set to agree ‘landmark’ new defence agreement | The Independent

UK and Japan set to agree ‘landmark’ new defence agreement

Boris Johnson said the Japanese prime minister’s visit will ‘accelerate our close defence relationship and build on our trade partnership’.

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Is Northeast Asia already a de facto area of European maritime interst?

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Useful way to visualise the ‘latticework’ structure that has the US-Japan alliance at the centre, but includes not just ROK and Australia, but also India, the UK and Philippines.

神保　謙 (Ken JIMBO)

@kenj0126

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前ポストの「『ハブ・アンド・スポーク』式の二国間同盟を『格子状の』同盟構造に変換」という表現、「格子」の形状は本日の日経の図がイメージしやすい。変換というよりは、それぞれの枠組みの史的背景のある進化(evolution)だ。そうであるが故に「格子」として捉える意味は大きいとも言える。

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@chenweihua Isn`t China Daily state owned?

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Japan, UK to arrange jointly to develop fighter jet's fuselage | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

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@francessmith Boris derangement syndrome (suspected to be a variant of the still prevalent Brexit derangement syndrome) is approaching epidemic proportions in some parts of the media community.

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@johnstanly You honestly don't see any difference?

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“China and Russia can share bitter experiences, but not happy ones.” In other words, it is only when facing a shared enemy that the two countries can form, out of convenience, a united front. - @YoichiFunabashi

Sino-Russian alliance thrives only in the company of a shared enemy

The world must acknowledge that the relationship between Xi's China and Putin's Russia has transformed into one of “strategic entente.”

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A new type of Britain-Japan Alliance

A new type of Britain-Japan Alliance – Britain’s World

Dr Philip Shetler-Jones assesses Britain’s ‘tilt’ towards the Indo-Pacific and new kind of alliance with Japan. Can both countries learn from the past?

www.geostrategy.org.uk

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@REVMAXXING NATO is growing. How’s that Eurasian Union getting on?

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Japan, Britain vow to sign defense cooperation pact at early date

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his British counterpart Liz Truss agree to sign a bilateral defense cooperation pact at an early date and to step up talks on a proposal to jointly develop a...

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@RealScottRitter Guilty of helping a victim of aggression defend itself?

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On a day when the 🇬🇧🇯🇵 relationship takes a step forward, it is a pleasure to share this piece kindly translated by @iwatenippo @kyodo_official on the "New Type of Alliance" (original published in English at @ConGeostrategy ) #日英同盟

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Prime Ministers of Japan and UK signed “Japan-UK Reciprocal Access Agreement” - documents in English and Japanese at the link

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AUKUS Joint Steering Group "deepening cooperation on information-sharing and other previously agreed working groups". Also "will seek opportunities to engage allies and close partners."

Readout of AUKUS Joint Steering Group Meetings

Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America recently held meetings of the AUKUS Joint Steering Groups, which were established as part of the governance structure of the AUKUS...

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@RnaudBertrand Is that unreasonable? PRC says unification with Taiwan, by force if necessary, is inevitable.

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NATO official visits Taiwan as patchwork approach to countering Beijing emerges – The China Project

NATO Defense College confirmed a previously unreported meeting in Taiwan in March. It’s just one of an array of regional and global moves aimed at restraining China’s future military options.

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[Bookmark] A New Type of Britain-Japan Alliance | JAPAN Forward

If nations with the blessings and capabilities of Britain and Japan excuse themselves as mere bystanders, the order that allows them, as well as others to prosper, will surely come to an end.

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Japan joining AUKUS would indeed be a major and welcome development.

Kantaro Komiya

@KantaroKomiya

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Australia, Britain and the United States have asked Japan to join the security pact AUKUS, Sankei newspaper reported, citing multiple government sources. AUKUS expects synergy with Japanese technologies on areas such as hypersonic weapons and electronic warfare, Sankei said.

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@samagreene He clearly feels — without specifying what a European position on China/Taiwan might be — that the most important thing is it should not be the same as the American position. Transatlantic difference is more important than European substance. He’s a vassal to his status anxiety.

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UK and Japan join forces on chip supply with Taiwan ties feeling ‘risky’ in China conflict

UK and Japan join forces on chip supply with Taiwan ties feeling 'risky' in China conflict - CityAM

The UK and Japan have pledged to improve the resilience of their semiconductor supply chains, as part of a freshly inked partnership between nations. In a statement today, the UK government said the...

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This fails to acknowledge that the response has been global, if not universal. Omission of the fact Japan, Singapore and South Korea, among others, are part of the sanctions coalition does not fit the "decline of the West" narrative, perhaps.

Edward Luce

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"Since Feb 24, the west has been galvanised into more unity than it has shown in years. Yet most of the world is on the sidelines waiting to see which way it goes. Not for the first time, the west risks mistaking itself for global consensus." My column

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@battleforeurope Hold on, give me a sec to put that on the planner

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@MacaesBruno Not forgetting UK was the first to bust the myth about some kind of alleged NATO "almost formal agreement" against sending certain types of tank.

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@CER_Grant It doesn’t trap them in Russia. There are lots of other places for Russian tourists to go outside the EU.

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@battleforeurope I think you can cross this off your list of delusions about NATO

Teri Schultz

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JUST IN: #NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg has reconfirmed to PM Orban that Budapest has no obligation to participate in any way with defending Ukraine. Stoltenberg says Orban has agreed not to block the other 31. This was the main purpose of Stoltenberg's visit.

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Japan Defence White Paper just dropped. Interesting set of developments illustrated here

防衛省・自衛隊

@ModJapan_jp

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〈#令和5年版防衛白書〉本日、令和5年版防衛白書を公表しました。「激変する時代」と題した安全保障環境や防衛省・自衛隊の取組の10年の変化に焦点を当てた特集や令和４年度の国際情勢、防衛省・自衛隊の取組などをまとめています。ぜひご覧ください。#防衛白書

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“The British military may no longer be as overwhelming as it was when the Anglo-Japanese alliance came into being, but the United Kingdom remains one of the world’s military powers and its re-entry into East Asia should not be minimized.”

The new Anglo-Japanese defense agreement is a message to Moscow and Beijing

In 1902, Britain broke out of what had been its longstanding policy of non-alignment, what it termed “splendid isolation,” and created its first alliance with a foreign power, the Japanese Empire. …

thehill.com

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@marceldirsus You shouldn’t be surprised, he’s been warning us he would do it (+5%), countries have been doing it forever, take off your “end of history” glasses (+5%), America”s constantly doing it (+5%), see, now he has our attention (+5%), important thing is to understand why he did it 🤪

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@CheburekiMan No-one invaded a nato country. Success of the core mission.

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Japan and U.K. launch economic security dialogue via @NikkeiAsia

Japan and U.K. launch economic security dialogue

Ministers confirm cooperation on critical minerals for supply chain resilience

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@Eivor_Koy @Kathleen_Tyson_ “The Chinese treat other countries and their people with enormous respect, and this is another excellent example of that.” ?

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@Gerashchenko_en The mentality seems to be Ukraine is Russia’s to do what they like with, so it should be nobody else’s concern or business to get involved with. Just no acceptance of Ukraine as its own place.

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A reformer and conservative. A nationalist and an innovative architect of multilateralism. He sought escape from the US-imposed constitution, but tightened the US-Japan Alliance. Abe-san overcame the contradictions of Japanese leadership in his time.

Shinzo Abe (1954-2022) – Britain’s World

Dr Philip Shetler-Jones reflects on Shinzo Abe’s role in international affairs, how he strengthened Britain-Japan relations and his legacy

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The best commentary I have seen yet on Japan’s new defense documents, by @MikeBosack

What to make of Japan’s new defense documents

Nothing in Japan's new defense documents signals an abandonment of the core principles of its security, but a refinement of roles and capabilities to match modern needs.

www.japantimes.co.jp

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Maybe he should have added Poland.

Poland's PM calls on West to stand with Ukraine to safeguard Taiwan

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stressed the implication of a Russian victory in Ukraine on Taiwan during his three-day visit to the United States.

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"🇯🇵officials gave their 🇩🇪counterparts an earful during 🇩🇪-🇯🇵 government consultations in mid-March. “It was 🇨🇳,🇨🇳, and more 🇨🇳” one diplomat told me. “It was a real eye-opener for those in the German government who have not been paying attention"

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@GermanyNATO @Bundeskanzler Perhaps something lost in translation, but discussion of these questions is surely not a priority. Is this really the time and place for sophomoric discussions?

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@shetlerjones

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Japan, U.S. defense chiefs affirm cooperation over Taiwan emergency

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Excellent episode ⁦ @IISS_org ⁩ ⁦ @RobertAlanWard ⁩ ⁦ @YukaKoshino ⁩

Japan’s new national-security documents with Professor Kanehara Nobukatsu

In the first episode of Japan Memo season 3, Yuka Koshino, Mariko Togashi and Robert Ward host Professor Kanehara Nobukatsu, Professor at the Faculty of Law at

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Philip Shetler-Jones

@shetlerjones

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@shashj Everyone I see on here who suggests Ukraine ‘negotiate’ with Russia, I ask them - ok, which of the Russian demands should they accept, and which reject? And so far none of them want to answer that question. It makes me think they say ‘negotiate’ when they really mean give up.

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Another reminder for those updating the UK Defence Command Paper that our most direct security concerns are closer than we sometimes think

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@shetlerjones

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@maxisluvnlife @sidhant

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"Britain’s Defense Minister Ben Wallace will attend a first in-person meeting of AUKUS ministers on Wednesday in Washington"

With eye on China, US to boost military forces in Australia – and ‘invite’ Japan to join in | CNN

The United States will increase the rotational presence of air, land and sea forces in Australia, including bomber aircraft and fighter jets, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday, amid...

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@shetlerjones

2 years

@shashj Intel chief caught by surprise..

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@shetlerjones

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This is a classic. Russia wishes to claim a fake "slap" since perhaps it does not dare to do more. PRC piles on, in anticipation of the same bluff-calling in SCS, perhaps?

Hu Xijin 胡锡进

@HuXijin_GT

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The UK needs to receive a slap-like lesson. It denied Russian claims of warning shots, and even dared not say a word of protest, which especially shows that it bullies the weak and fears the strong.

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@Joel_P_Atkinson The other one I have doubts about is that if Taiwan goes then U.S. alliance system falls away. I suspect the result might be the exact opposite, and U.S. allies double down.

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@shetlerjones

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@FuCong17 @MacaesBruno @NewStatesman When PRC cannot confirm Ukraine’s sovereignty over Crimea, why should others recognize Beijing’s claim of PRC sovereignty over Taiwan, let alone the South China Sea?

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@shetlerjones

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"The 🇬🇧 relationship with 🇯🇵 has grown further and faster than with any other international partner, reflecting 🇯🇵's pivotal role in the Indo-Pacific and their centrality to the 🇬🇧's security and prosperity."

PM to agree historic UK-Japan Accord ahead of G7

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will agree a landmark new global strategic partnership, 'The Hiroshima Accord'.

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@shetlerjones

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@philippilk How would the CCP and Chinese society do in a situation where their overseas supplies of energy, food, and raw materials was cut off? Surprised an investment professional is not factoring that into the scenario.

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Good and well aimed response to a question on @NATO at #SLD23 @PlJonson : Enlargement didn’t cause Russian aggression. Russian aggression is driving enlargement. Food for thought for anyone who is worrying about what might lead to an Asian NATO.

IISS News

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‘The mutual dependence between the Euro-Atlantic and the Asia-Pacific areas entails above all opportunities. But it also means that we have to pay close attention to a broad spectrum of risks, from conflict to supply-chain disruptions’ | @PlJonson #SLD23

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@shetlerjones

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@andrewmichta Not just weapons, either. China’s geography gives it large structural vulnerabilities on energy and food security.

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@shetlerjones

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@ulrichspeck Ulrich, serious question - my sense is almost all German foreign policy watchers (academic, thinktank, media) were anti NS2, yet it went ahead. What does that say about the degree to which Germany's wonk community represents or reflects mainstream German views on foreign policy?

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@WBWhiskeyBravo @RAF_Luton Keep an eye out for these guys

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