Will President Xi raise [Japan’s submarine assistance to Taiwan] when Japan’s Prime Minister Abe visits China around October 23, 2018?
This is at a time Abe is pushing for a rapprochement with China as a leverage against the US’s imminent tariffs on Japanese cars and components. Also Japan wishes to counter US pressure upon Japan to open its agricultural markets (a strategic electoral issue in Japan).
How is Abe going to respond to Xi?
On defense matters, Abe cannot deny that he knows nothing, or cannot do anything, about [MHI and KHI] retirees looking for jobs as contractors on Taiwan's submarine project.
Geopolitically, [this Anonymous] has doubts on the staying power of Japanese or South Korean submarine technical assistance to Taiwan when China starts pressuring those countries.
This is at a time Abe is pushing for a rapprochement with China as a leverage against the US’s imminent tariffs on Japanese cars and components. Also Japan wishes to counter US pressure upon Japan to open its agricultural markets (a strategic electoral issue in Japan).
How is Abe going to respond to Xi?
On defense matters, Abe cannot deny that he knows nothing, or cannot do anything, about [MHI and KHI] retirees looking for jobs as contractors on Taiwan's submarine project.
Geopolitically, [this Anonymous] has doubts on the staying power of Japanese or South Korean submarine technical assistance to Taiwan when China starts pressuring those countries.