Recently, I’ve been given some opportunities to get in touch with US experts dealing with the bilateral relationship with Japan, my country. It’s been great honors for me to meet them either virtually or in-person in Washington D. C., where the essential elements of the developing Japan-US alliance have been developing. My personal interest motivates me to contact them pro-actively this time: Does US recognize the fundamental shift of the regional environments in East Asia due to the accelerated covert intervention by UK?
Having talked with them, I now think a kind of “path dependency” to be on the US side. Takin g an example of defense policy as well as equipment, they firmly believe the status quo of the Japan-US alliance will never change despite any attempts of the third countries including UK. One of the experts even referred to the much worse fiscal constraints in Europe, which allegedly hinder them from effectively penetrating to Japan, particularly her defense policy and sector.
From my viewpoint, this is, unfortunately, not the case this time. It’s UK (together with the Vatican) that matters in this regard, while they seem not to agree with US on establishing a new world order with Russia and PRC. One of the battlefields in this context is Japan, where a series of changes have been triggered covertly behind the door, even without any prior consent of US.
Well, let’s see what’ll take place in the very near future. At this juncture, the one single fact is quite obvious: It’s Japan that is about to be “squeezed” in the course of the above mentioned power game. Stay tuned.
