Ely Ratner, who was the assistant secretary of defence for Indo-Pacific security affairs from 2021 to this year, stated that Takaichi's comments about Taiwan merely echoed Japan's official stance on the matter.
More than half of surveyed US and Taiwan experts said they believed a cross-Taiwan Strait crisis was likely to occur in 2024, although there were mixed views on how exactly it would play out, a report released Monday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said.
A united front involving India, Japan and the United States is in the right position to limit such aspirations that seem to be built upon hegemonic characteristics.
Hong Kong, August 16 (ANI): China's antics after the Taiwan visit on August 3-4 by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, demonstrated that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cares not at all for Taiwan and its people, but only for its own glory.