The annual Defense White Paper: Defense of Japan 2024, published on July 12, declared a dramatic turn towards Japanese subservience to the “Global NATO” policy of submission to the U.S./British war policy against China and Russia, and essentially against the entire BRICS-Global South. According to a report by The Diplomat, the paper states: “Japan is facing the most severe and complex security environment since the end of World War II. It cannot be ruled out that a serious situation similar to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine may occur in the Indo-Pacific region in future, particularly in East Asia.”
The white paper expressed “serious concern” over China accusing Beijing of presenting “an unprecedented and the greatest strategic challenge to which Japan should respond with its comprehensive national power and in cooperation and collaboration with its ally, like-minded countries and others.” They make no effort to hide that this is a call to work with NATO, or outright join NATO, to contain China, Russia and North Korea. Japanese Defense Minister Kihara Minoru wrote on the opening page of the white paper that “no country can protect her own security alone,” underscoring the need to strengthen cooperation with like-minded countries with whom Tokyo shares universal values and strategic interests, a phrase straight out of the “rules based order” of the intended NATO dictatorship.
