(Washington) “Asia could be the Ukraine of tomorrow,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned Saturday from the United States as he concludes a tour of the G7 countries.
He said he told the leaders of those countries-the G7 is made up of the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada and Japan-his “strong feeling security crisis for East Asia”.
Fumio Kishida, whose country is chairing the G7 this year, traveled to each of the member states except Germany in a week, due to a scheduling problem. But he intends to go there soon.
“The lesson to be learned from Ukraine is that the security of Europe and that of the Indo-Pacific region are inseparable”, he indicated during a press conference, the day after his meeting with the American president. Joe Biden.
The situation around Japan is increasingly serious, between attempts to forcibly change the status quo in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and the engagement by North Korea of nuclear activities and of missile fire.
Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of Japan
He is referring here to China’s drive to increase its grip on a disputed sea expanse, leading to friction with Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam.
The region is also hanging on to tensions around Taiwan, an island which Beijing believes belongs to its territory.
The arrival of Fumio Kishida in Washington follows a spectacular announcement for this country which has claimed to be pacifist since the end of the Second World War.
Japan will indeed double its defense spending over the next five years.
The leaders of the G7 will meet in May for their annual summit in Hiroshima, where the United States dropped an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 in the first nuclear attack in history. It is also the electoral stronghold of the Japanese Prime Minister.