Japan’s $56 billion budget for possible countermeasures against China and North Korea

According to the Fars News Agency International Group, Japan’s military spending will increase by more than 16% next year, and its purpose is to accelerate the deployment of long-range cruise missiles to possibly deal with China and North Korea.

News agency “Associated Press” reported on Saturday that the budget approved by the Japanese cabinet will strengthen the country’s army with stealth fighters “F-35” and other American weapons.

The $56 billion budget for 2024, which begins in March, is the second year of a five-year military buildup plan under the new security strategy that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government approved a year ago. .

At the same time, military analysts on China’s significant growth in the construction of aircraft carriers and nuclear missiles of this country in confrontation with the United States and other Regional rivals, including Japan and Taiwan, pointed out.

“Peter Susio” American analyst said: “Building aircraft carriers is a big part of the main plan of the force It is the sea of ​​China. Earlier this summer, the Chinese Navy launched its third 80,000-ton aircraft carrier, which is the largest warship built by the country.

Japan has the largest military budget in the world after the United States and China. Last year, this budget was about 48 billion dollars.

In another step that emphasizes moving away from the purely defensive principle, Japan partially lifted the ban on the export of lethal weapons. This action is the first major revision of the arms export ban since its initial reduction in 2014.

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