Japan will fight Cina

 

Japan's No. 2 raises possibility of joining US in defending Taiwan

  TOKYO -- If China invades Taiwan, Tokyo may interpret the move as a "threat to Japan's survival" and deploy the Self-Defense Forces to exercise collective self-defense, Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said Monday.
 
  Aso's remark does not represent a new policy but a vocalization of law revisions several years ago.
 
Given Japan's constitutional restrictions on the use of its armed forces, Tokyo is authorized to mobilize the SDF only for national defense. Previously, the only scenario in which the SDF could use force involved an "armed attack situation," such as an organized and premeditated attack against Japan's territorial land, sea or airspace.
 
In 2015, under then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan enacted a series of security laws that expanded the conditions for deploying the SDF. One new concept involved situations threatening Japan's survival.