alert!Japanese officials go to the United States to "observe" nuclear submarines

The Japanese Senate election is imminent. Under the hype of conservative political forces, the issue of diplomatic security has attracted unprecedented attention from Japanese society, and Japanese officials have quietly made a rare move.

The "extended deterrent" dialogue in the United States and Japan

Japanese officials go to the United States of American Watchomy Submarine

On June 23, local time, the State Department of the United States announced that officials and defense departments of the United States and Japan held a dialogue on "extending deterrence" at the Naval Base in the Kings Bay of the United States from 21 to 22.

The so -called "extended deterrence" refers to the provision of military protection to the United States or partnerships, avoiding being attacked by third parties. During the visit to Japan in May this year, the US President Biden promised to protect Japan with all means including nuclear weapons. The United States and Japan reached an agreement on strengthening the discussion of "extended deterrence".

It is worth noting that there is such a sentence in the US statement: as part of the "extended deterrent" dialogue, the delegations of the United States and Japan visited the US "Ohio" class strategic nuclear submarine "Maryland".

Dangerous trend:

Japanese politics is loosened to holding nuclear weapons

In Japan, various signs show that Japanese society, especially politics, has gradually loosened on issues such as nuclear submarines and even nuclear weapons.

"Asahi Shimbun" and the University of Tokyo recently investigated the candidates for party participating in the July Senate elections. When asked if he should adhere to the "three principles of nuclear no nuclear", the proportion of Liberal Democratic Party candidates who had been answered was 64%, which fell below 70%for the first time, setting the lowest since the investigation since 2007. At the same time, the proportion of "three principles of nuclear no nuclear" reached 9%, a new high.

Analysis states: alert to Japan's "strategic derailment"

Since the outbreak of the Russian and Ukraine conflict, Japan has tried to renders speculation and intends to "use the western disaster east", especially the conservatives in politics have actively used the crisis to promote the strategic transformation of Japan.

Some analysts pointed out that the biggest threat facing Japan is not from the external security environment, but the "derailment" of its own strategy, that is, the track of peaceful development under the post -war constitution, and adopting a long -distance attack and neighboring military military internally. Diplomatic layout.

Military expert Du Wenlong said that Japan has deepened its "bundling" with the United States in conventional combat capabilities. It will be very dangerous if you try to start the so -called "cooperation" in terms of nuclear capacity. After the Japanese side left the "three principles of nuclear non -nuclear", it was worthy of vigilance.

Source: CCTV Military Comprehensive CCTV-7 "Defense Military Zaobao", CCTV-4 "Today Asia"

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