The Cold War Never Ended in Asia

... apparent ease, with which the government of Fumio Kishida was able to pass a major shift in the national defense posture in the end of 2022 with the goal of turning Japan into the third largest military spender in the world by 2027, suggests that the Japanese society is now ready to reconsider some of the country’s basic post-WW2 foreign policy principles. The Cold War—Asian Style The Cold War in Asia was arguably fiercer and more ruthless than in Europe. Yes, in Europe the Soviet Union executed military interventions in Hungary (1956) and in Czechoslovakia (1968), but neither of them can be compared to the ...