Abe’s Think Tank Proposes ‘Beheading’ Military Move to Deter Chinese Communist Party

Abe’s Think Tank Proposes ‘Beheading’ Military Move to Deter Chinese Communist Party
Members of the Japanese Maritime Defence Force march on board a ship during a naval fleet review on October 29, 2006 off Sagami Bay, Japan. Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images
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Japanese scholar Shimada Yoichi, a former advisor to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, recently suggested that Japan’s military should strengthen its “beheading” capability to fundamentally subdue the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and North Korea in order to bring peace in Asia.

In recent years, China’s aggressive military deployment to the Asia-Pacific region, its threat to forcibly unify Taiwan, and North Korea’s test launch of hypersonic missiles make Japan antsy.