This WILL Be China’s Biggest Strategic Loss. Japan’s Comeback Changes the Game.
China Fears a Stronger Japan More Than Trump.
For decades, Beijing has built its nationalism on one assumption: Japan would remain the “defeated nation” of World War II.
That assumption is now under threat.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pushing constitutional revision with real political momentum. If Japan formally recognizes its Self-Defense Forces in the constitution, Article 9’s post-war restraints could be fundamentally reinterpreted and East Asia’s strategic balance could shift for good.