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Japan ups intelligence on Chinese military
Japan is boosting its intelligence resources devoted to China's growing military, which it considers the top national security concern, the business daily Nikkei reported Sunday.
The defense ministry-affiliated National Institute for Defense Studies has established a task force of six researchers to examine China's national security strategy. The team will be expanded into a fuller unit in two or three years, the newspaper said.
Researchers will study the strategic thinking guiding the People's Liberation Army, the purpose of its recent military buildup and its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.
"Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government has stepped into a period of 'policy assessment,'" Yang Bojiang, director at the Department of Northeast Asia of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, told the Global Times.
"They are getting prepared for the National Defense Program Guidelines that will be released in December," Yang said, noting that Japan is keeping China's growing power in mind.
The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force spotted two Chinese submarines and eight destroyers earlier this month in the high seas between the main island of Okinawa and Miyako in the southernmost prefecture, Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa said Tuesday.
Kitazawa said Tokyo had never before monitored such a large group of Chinese war-ships in the region.
According to a statement Thursday by the Information Office of the Chinese Ministry of National Defense, the Chinese navy is advocating its normal annual training.
"It is a normal exercise, which is common training adopted by many countries," the statement said, adding that there is no need to make a fuss over it.
"China and Japan have a problem of mutual trust due to geopolitical and historical reasons, especially against the backdrop of a changing force balance between the two countries," Yang added.
Global Times - Japan ups intelligence on Chinese military: report
Japan is boosting its intelligence resources devoted to China's growing military, which it considers the top national security concern, the business daily Nikkei reported Sunday.
The defense ministry-affiliated National Institute for Defense Studies has established a task force of six researchers to examine China's national security strategy. The team will be expanded into a fuller unit in two or three years, the newspaper said.
Researchers will study the strategic thinking guiding the People's Liberation Army, the purpose of its recent military buildup and its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.
"Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government has stepped into a period of 'policy assessment,'" Yang Bojiang, director at the Department of Northeast Asia of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, told the Global Times.
"They are getting prepared for the National Defense Program Guidelines that will be released in December," Yang said, noting that Japan is keeping China's growing power in mind.
The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force spotted two Chinese submarines and eight destroyers earlier this month in the high seas between the main island of Okinawa and Miyako in the southernmost prefecture, Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa said Tuesday.
Kitazawa said Tokyo had never before monitored such a large group of Chinese war-ships in the region.
According to a statement Thursday by the Information Office of the Chinese Ministry of National Defense, the Chinese navy is advocating its normal annual training.
"It is a normal exercise, which is common training adopted by many countries," the statement said, adding that there is no need to make a fuss over it.
"China and Japan have a problem of mutual trust due to geopolitical and historical reasons, especially against the backdrop of a changing force balance between the two countries," Yang added.
Global Times - Japan ups intelligence on Chinese military: report
