{"id":56207,"date":"2021-07-13T17:42:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/07\/13\/japans-new-defense-whitepaper-issues-warnings-over-taiwans-security-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:10:34","slug":"japans-new-defense-whitepaper-issues-warnings-over-taiwans-security-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/asia-pacific\/2021\/07\/13\/japans-new-defense-whitepaper-issues-warnings-over-taiwans-security-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s new defense whitepaper issues warnings over Taiwan\u2019s security, climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 In a first, Japan\u2019s annual defense whitepaper has explicitly cited Taiwan\u2019s stability as \u201cimportant for Japan\u2019s security\u201d and that of the international community, warning officials to \u201cpay close attention to the situation with a sense of crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The language in the July 13 document differs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/asia-pacific\/2020\/07\/15\/japan-highlights-f-35-acquisition-military-ops-amid-pandemic-in-new-whitepaper\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous versions<\/a>, which would carefully choose their use of words on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The English-language summary of the whitepaper also said the \u201coverall military balance between China and Taiwan is tilting in China\u2019s favour, and the gap appears to be growing year by year.\u201d China considers the self-ruled island of Taiwan a rogue province and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2021\/06\/16\/china-sends-largest-group-of-military-aircraft-in-single-day-near-taiwan\/\" target=\"_blank\">vowed to return it<\/a> under the control of the mainland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whitepaper added that Japan must pay attention to the strengthening of Chinese and Taiwanese forces, the sale of arms to the latter by the United States, and Taiwan\u2019s indigenous weapons developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whitepaper comes in the wake of recent remarks by Japanese defense officials, including Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, linking Taiwan\u2019s security situation directly to that of Japan, and amid reports Japan has asked the U.S. to share details of its plans to defend Taiwan. U.S. officials \u201cdemurred,\u201d according to London\u2019s Financial Times, although it also reported that the U.S. preferred to improve coordination with Japan over Taiwan \u201cin phases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, U.S.-Japan military exercises are becoming increasingly complex, with the eventual goal being an integrated plan to defend Taiwan should a military force invade the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan has welcomed Japan\u2019s unusually blunt assessment, but Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian described the whitepaper\u2019s wording as \u201cextremely wrong and irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The English-language summary also positioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/04\/27\/climate-change-an-existential-threat-says-secdef\/\" target=\"_blank\">climate change as a security issue<\/a> for Japan for the first time, noting that 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