Politics
China's Security Rise and Japan's 'Defeatism' Debate
At the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, Japan's defense-research participant from the year before was not invited while former PM Hatoyama joined a dialogue, and an animator's argument that Japan can never match China and should just stay friendly was attacked as 'defeatism.' The result was a heated debate over the real military balance, though claims of deliberate exclusion remain unconfirmed.