Will Japan become the Indo-Pacific’s most trusted power?

While the world focuses on China’s rise, Japan has been quietly boosting its own strategic importance in Asia. Thanks to careful diplomacy, it has managed to gain trust with other small and middle powers in the region.

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Robert Ward, Senior Fellow and Japan Chair at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and author of the book Evaluating Japan’s New Strategy, tells DW how Japan is building its defense muscles without needing to flex them.

Taiwan plays a big part, with Japan increasingly concerned about China‘s ambitions over the island, which lies just kilometers away from its own claimed territory.

Ward says the recent unreliability of the US is pushing Japan to step up, and drawing other nations to its side. 

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