"I believe that now is the time for Japan, Taiwan, the United States and other like-minded countries to be prepared to put into action very strong deterrence," he said. "It's the resolve to fight."
Japan struggles to match rhetoric, policy on defending Taiwan
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“The most important thing for us now is that there should be no war in the region, including the Taiwan Strait,” the vice president of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Taro Aso, said Tuesday in Taipei at the Ketagalan Forum hosted by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Japanese political leader Taro Aso calls for peace in the Taiwan Strait as Tokyo expands defense
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