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Japan is being sucked into the new cold war against China
Despite its famous constitutional commitment to never fully remilitarise, Japan is now participating in US-led war games and spending billions more on weaponry, reports VIJAY PRASHAD
WAR GAMES: Japanese destroyer Asahi (right) joins exercises alongside the US, Australia, Canada and South Korea, in Sagami Bay, south of Tokyo, November 6
In a revealing speech, Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy behind the tariff policy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony, reports MARC VANDEPITTE
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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We are not here to advocate for the arms industry or its CEOs, writes STEVE HANDFORD, and that means we must take a stand against the government’s spending on war
As Labour mimics Tory welfare cuts while ignoring crumbling schools, educators must collectively resist the government's priorities and fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children, writes NEU president SARAH KILPATRICK
Although our sector is hearing better things from the current government, the recognition that what we do is education in its own right, rather than just childcare, is still not reflected in policy, writes LUCY COLEMAN
IN early December 2021, Japan’s Self-Defence Force joined the US armed forces for Resolute Dragon 2021, which the US Marines called the “largest bilateral training exercise of the year.”
Major General Jay Bargeron said at the start of the exercise that the US is “ready to fight and win if called upon.”
Resolute Dragon 2022 followed the resumption, in September, of trilateral military drills off the Korean peninsula by Japan, South Korea and the US; these drills had been suspended as the former South Korean government attempted a policy of rapprochement with North Korea.
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