The United States is willing to use nuclear weapons to defend its ally Japan, and will defend Japan’s claim to the Senkaku Islands, which communist China claims as its own, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Jan. 11.
His remarks came as the two countries agreed to deepen strategic and military cooperation in the face of multiple challenges, including increasing aggression by China’s ruling communist regime.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the increased cooperation on Thursday after a meeting between Blinken, Austin, and their Japanese counterparts, Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa, and Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu in Washington.
Blinken said that Japan and the United States were strengthening an already strong alliance, and would continue to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) malign influence throughout the world….