Japan Holds High-Level Meeting to Discuss the Chinese Regime Threat Amid Joint Military Drill

As Japan, the United States, and France are conducting joint military exercises, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) held a high-level meeting last Wednesday (May 12) to discuss how to tackle the threat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

French Army lieutnant colonel Henri Marcaillou (L), Japan Self-Defense Force colonel Masashi Hiraki (C), and U.S. Marines lieutnant colonel Jeremy Nielson (R) attend a joint military drill between the Japan Self-Defense Force, the French Army, and U.S. Marines at the Kirishima exercise area in Ebino, Miyazaki Prefecture, on May 15, 2021. Charly Triballeau/ AFP via Getty Images

As Japan, the United States, and France are conducting joint military exercises, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) held a high-level meeting on May 12 to discuss how to tackle the threat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The senior management of the LDP, representing both the national defense and the security ministry, discussed various situations at the Senkaku Islands (also known as Diaoyu), the South China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait.