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Ishiba: How ‘Asian NATO’ With U.S.-Japan at Core Can Work To Deter China

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Before Ishiba Shigeru's election to the head of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, he wrote in a Hudson Institute article on the need of an "Asian NATO" to deter China. Furthermore, with the Nikkei reporting that Chinese nationalists are behind a disinformation campaign for “Okinawan independence” to amplify China's narrative of an “unresolved Okinawa,” we look at how Chinese influence is impacting Japan. Our guests: Kuo Yu-jen - National Sun Yat-sen University Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Studies Professor and Director Mathieu Duchâtel - Institut Montaigne Resident Senior Fellow and Director of International Studies