That's just an excuse. The real reason is they do not want to piss off China. It's the same reason SoKo quit P-75I.
That's just an excuse. The real reason is they do not want to piss off China. It's the same reason SoKo quit P-75I.
Seriously?? Do they not realize that no matter what they do ,China expects full subservience from both japan and SOKO....??
what's logic behind this?
SoKo seeks neutrality when it comes to China's problems with other powers. They were following the same plan with Russia, but was derailed due to the war. There's still an opportunity for them to fix things, 'cause Russia is amenable to that.
Japan has the same rule with Russia, and the current situation can be reversed. And they have decided to maintain some level of neutrality between China and India specifically, reciprocating our own stance in East Asia, but have openly supported Taiwan. I guess they do not want to take up more headaches than what they already have. So they are allied with India in the civilian and diplomatic space to counter China, but do not want to go beyond that.
Sure looks like it from the way SoKo delayed the deployment of THAAD on its territory under Chinese pressure. Japan though has been openly backing Taiwan, diplomatically and militarily.
Reports say MHI secretly provided design help for Taiwan's SSK program with the first boat hitting the water recently.
Yep, SoKo cannot afford to become enemies with China, and Japan cannot afford Taiwan to fall into China's hands, or they are next. And India has no interest in interfering in East Asia.
It's actually much worse for them because India wants China and the US distracted in East Asia, leaving the IOR, Africa, Myanmar, and the ME in India's hands.
And the others would prefer China is distracted by India, hence their need to cosy up to us via QUAD (and now a new group called SQUAD), which we did not fall for. They just wanna drag India into their squabbles.