Nov. 25 06:09 am JST
TOKYO
A think tank linked to Japan’s Defense Ministry warned Friday that China and Russia share a “common strategic goal” of creating a new international order so that they can use force to change the status quo more easily.
Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin “have a hostile view of the existing global order based on the fundamental values of freedom and democracy,” Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies said in its China Security Report.
Xi and Putin regard the current order as an “obstacle” to enhancing their interests and further stepped up their collaboration to change the situation, it said.
The annual report came as Japan and other democracies led by the United States have grown more vigilant against China’s provocative military activities in the Indo-Pacific region and have condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine since February 2022.
China’s ruling Communist Party has been attempting to change the post-Cold War international order to protect its “core interests” through the use of force, with the aim of ensuring the security of its authoritarian political system, the report said.
Xi has described Taiwan as a core interest and has pledged to reunify the self-ruled democratic island with the mainland, by force if necessary. Beijing and Taipei have been governed separately since they split in 1949 due to a civil war.
Meanwhile, Xi considers Russia, which has adopted a more assertive stance against Western countries and the NATO-led European security framework, an “important strategic partner” in working toward transforming the existing order, the think tank said.
By strengthening military cooperation, including joint patrols in waters surrounding Japan, it is possible China and Russia may form a “de-facto alliance,” the report said. So far, it is believed that the two nations have not built a military alliance.
Tension between the China-Russia camp and U.S.-led democracies seeking to maintain the status quo is expected to escalate and persist in the long term, with the involvement of developing and emerging countries in the “Global South,” the report said.
In a bid to tackle China and Russia, Japan should beef up its defense capabilities and bolster its alliance with the United States while promoting diplomacy with nations, such as those in Southeast Asia, which share fundamental values, it added.© KYODO
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The MAGA gang in our government blissfully ignore the fact that letting Ukraine lose the war will never make America great again. It will only help make mafia land and china greater.
Sir OFP for the MAGA crowd to understand the implications would require an IQ higher than their age. Worst, I don’t understand how a group of republicans, large or small, can become such isolationists or pro-authoritarianism. I just don’t get it. Are they so filled with hatred of Biden or did they drink too much Trump Kool-Aid?
Unfortunately even people with high IQs can be taken in by cult or cult like organizations or personalities.
“Are they so filled with hatred of Biden”
Many on the right don’t want to do anything that would give Joe Biden a “win”, no matter how much their intransigence hurts the country.
Can’t disagree but also the same holds for those on the left who can’t give any credit to a republican. That’s the unfortunate part
I wish I had an answer, Sir Cap. I’m just as baffled.
I just read an article about how the far right took over the GOP.
“They thought they could control it,” Michael Podhorzer, the former political director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. who has studied the House’s far-right progression, said of G.O.P. leaders. “But once you agree essentially that Democrats are satanic, there is no room in the party for someone who says we need to compromise with Democrats to accomplish what we need to get done.”
And your point is what?
You wrote, “I don’t understand how a group of republicans, large or small, can become such isolationists or pro-authoritarianism.”
Coincidentally, an article in today’s NY Times explained how this happened. So, I thought you might be interested in reading it.
Thanks Larry. The same can be said about democrats. IMHO with some rare exceptions, all politicians republicans democrats independents are low life scum bags that can never be trusted.
“The same can be said about democrats.”
How so? The Democrats have their leftist wing (“the squad”), who make the Democratic Party look much more progressive than it actually is. But they don’t have any real control over the party, the way the “Freedumb Cockus” has over the Republican Party.
You really do need help!!!
So help me understand what you mean. I just don’t see any crazies moving the Democratic Party to the left the way that there are crazies moving the Republican party to the far right.
Can you explain your comment? Or do you just want to attack?
I think you’re so wrapped up with the DNC you can’t see the forest through the trees. Both sides dems hard left and republicans hard right are dangerous to our democracy.
I guess you just want to attack…
I pay no attention to the DNC.
“Both sides dems hard left and republicans hard right are dangerous to our democracy.”
But the “hard left” hasn’t taken over the Democratic party the way that the “hard right” has taken over the Republican party.