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To Deter Communist China’s PLA, Japan Must Resolve Its Serious Military Recruitment Problem

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To Deter Communist China’s PLA, Japan Must Resolve Its Serious Military Recruitment Problem
Sailors work on board the JS Amagiri (DD-154), an Asagiri-class destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, as it arrives at port in Manila, Philippines, on Feb. 2, 2018. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images
Grant Newsham
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Japan’s recently released Defense White Paper highlights once again that the Japanese know they’ve got a problem with an aggressive, expansionist, resentful communist China. And Japan is trying to do something to address the threat. Japan has always seen Russia and North Korea as problems, but the Chinese regime is an entirely different danger.
Grant Newsham
Grant Newsham
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Grant Newsham is a retired U.S. Marine officer and a former U.S. diplomat and business executive with many years in the Asia/Pacific region. He is a senior fellow with the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies (Tokyo) and Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the best selling book “When China Attacks: A Warning to America.”
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