Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday announced the country’s biggest military build-up since World War Two with a $320 billion plan that will buy missiles capable of striking China and ready it for sustained conflict, as regional tensions and Russia’s Ukraine invasion stoke war fears. His government worries that Russia has set a precedent that will encourage China to attack Taiwan, threatening nearby Japanese islands.
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