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Japan So Far Has No Response to Growing Chinese Threats to Japanese Islands

Japan So Far Has No Response to Growing Chinese Threats to Japanese Islands
A Chinese Coast Guard ship in Manila port on Jan. 14, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Stephen Bryen
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Chinese decision-makers and national security experts must be delighted by Japan’s failure to respond in any meaningful way to the decision by the regime in Beijing to allow its Coast Guard to “fire upon vessels around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.”
Stephen Bryen
Stephen Bryen
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Dr. Stephen Bryen is regarded as a thought leader on technology security policy, twice being awarded the Defense Department’s highest civilian honor, the Distinguished Public Service Medal. A Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Senior Fellow, Yorktown Institute, his most recent book is “Technology Security and National Power: Winners and Losers.”
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