![]() ![]() In response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Former Prime Minister Abe launched the Partnership for Quality Infrastructure, and Japan is now a more important investor in infrastructure in the ASEAN group of countries than China. He promoted the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), involving Australia, India, Japan and the U.S., which now meets at the leader level. It created a centralized national security agency and enhanced international partnerships, especially with India, Australia and Southeast Asia.įormer Prime Minister Abe also advanced the concept of the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” to defend maritime space from Chinese hegemony. It secured a new interpretation of Japan’s pacifist constitution, such that Japan could henceforth engage in “collective self-defense,” allowing it to come to the aid of a close ally like the U.S. It increased Japan’s defense spending modestly, after almost a decade of decline. Japan’s security and defense posture gradually began to change with the end of the Cold War, and especially during Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s second term as prime minister, from 2012 to 2020.įormer Prime Minister Abe led the world in defining the new era of competition with China and was well ahead of the U.S., which was still employing “strategic engagement” with China until the end of the Obama administration.įormer Prime Minister Abe’s administration undertook many initiatives in the security and defense realm. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Signaled a Hardening of Attitudes As a consequence of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan has also long had a vibrant anti-nuclear, pacifist movement. This facilitated Japan’s rapid development during the early postwar years, as it enabled Japan to concentrate on reconstructing its domestic economy. ![]() Thus, Japan only spends 1% of GDP on national defense, much lower than the U.S.’s 3.7%, and the NATO countries commitment to spend a minimum of 2% of GDP. Japan’s national security has been substantially ensured by the U.S./Japan military alliance. Under a constitution written by the postwar American occupiers, Japan forever renounced “war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.” Although Japan also agreed to never sustain armed forces, it has long had “Self-Defense Forces.” In 2020, a group of armed men stole $14m and €1m (£11.6m) from a Brinks security van at the same airport.Following the end of World War II, Japan adopted a rather low-key approach to national security and defense. Organized crime in Chile has spiked in recent years, including elaborate train heists and a string of raids targeting security vans on or near Santiago airport. Raul Jorquera, general director of the DGAC, told reporters that no passengers were at risk during the encounter, and that the robbers had “high capacity firepower” to steal the money. ![]() The plane, which had arrived from Miami, was carrying $32.5m to be transported locally by security provider Brinks. “There was an intense exchange of gunfire,” Monsalve said, noting that security officials “foiled a robbery by a highly organized, highly armed and probably very well-planned robbery”. Footage widely shared on social media shows a shootout between robbers and officials from Chile’s DGAC aviation agency below a Latam Airlines plane at the Arturo Merino Benítez international airport in Santiago.Īuthorities said one robber and a DGAC airport security official died during the attempted robbery early on Wednesday.Īt La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Manuel Monsalve, the deputy interior minister, said about 10 robbers entered the airport in three vehicles after tying up a security guard. ![]()
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