{"id":159781,"date":"2026-11-04T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159781"},"modified":"2026-11-04T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:00:10","slug":"whats-the-message-for-china-as-japan-weighs-us500-billion-defence-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159781","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the message for China as Japan weighs US$500 billion defence surge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina could face a substantially more capable Japanese military over the coming years as Tokyo considers nearly doubling its five-year defence spending to as much as 80 trillion yen (US$508 billion), according to media reports in Japan.<br \/>\nObservers said such a build-up could strengthen Japan\u2019s ability to deter or respond to People\u2019s Liberation Army operations around Taiwan and the East China Sea, as well as withstand attacks and sustain prolonged operations in a regional conflict.<br \/>\nThe reported&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3373139\/whats-message-china-japan-weighs-us500-billion-defence-surge\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina could face a substantially more capable Japanese military over the coming years as Tokyo considers nearly doubling its five-year defence spending to as&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\/159781"}],"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=159781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}