{"id":157126,"date":"2026-09-07T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157126"},"modified":"2026-09-07T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:00:13","slug":"how-tokyo-is-widening-regional-defence-ties-to-complicate-beijings-taiwan-calculus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157126","title":{"rendered":"How Tokyo is widening regional defence ties to complicate Beijing\u2019s Taiwan calculus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe risk of a conflict over Taiwan is shaping Japanese defence planning, with Tokyo shoring up security at home and abroad for a potentially prolonged fight. But there are economic, demographic and political constraints on how far its military transformation can go. In the first of a three-part series, Gabriel Dominguez examines how Japan is building a network of partnerships to strengthen its strategic endurance.<br \/>\nJapan is rapidly building a web of defence partnerships spanning the Indo-Pacific&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3366646\/how-tokyo-widening-regional-defence-ties-complicate-beijings-taiwan-calculus?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 PostThe risk of a conflict over Taiwan is shaping Japanese defence planning, with Tokyo shoring up security at home and abroad for a potentially&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\/157126"}],"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=157126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}