{"id":149144,"date":"2026-04-04T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149144"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:37:00","slug":"why-china-is-worried-by-japans-plans-to-change-rules-on-arms-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149144","title":{"rendered":"Why China is worried by Japan\u2019s plans to change rules on arms sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapan is considering plans to relax its rules on the sale of offensive weapons in a move that one Chinese analyst said may open the door to it exporting weapons to war zones and possibly to Taiwan.<br \/>\nCurrently, Japan can only export military equipment designated for five defensive purposes: rescue, transport, warning, surveillance or minesweeping.<br \/>\nBut a draft government document, reportedly seen by the news agency Kyodo, would scrap this rule and these categories.<br \/>\nKyodo said the new regulations&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3349045\/why-china-worried-japans-plans-change-rules-arms-sales?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapan is considering plans to relax its rules on the sale of offensive weapons in a move that one Chinese analyst said may open&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}