Distant Islands Central To Japanese Defense Strategy

Looking out from China, the string of islands stretching from Japan to Indonesia stand as a barrier to access to the Pacific. Among these islands, called the first island chain, those between Okinawa and Taiwan and belonging to Japan must seem of particular interest to Chinese strategists looking...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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