Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's coalition won a landslide election victory, paving the way for her planned tax cuts that unsettled financial markets and increased military spending aimed at countering China https://reut.rs/4bIha0K | Reuters

Japan is twisting the facts and playing the victim again. In the early hours of Dec 7, Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi held an emergency news conference accusing China of "locking radar" on Japanese aircraft. But let's be clear: This is a classic case of the guilty crying foul. Instead of stoking tensions and reviving the dangerous logic of militarism, Japan should pull back from its confrontational trajectory — a trajectory history has already shown leads only toward disaster. #Media